Mother cat nursing kittens usually for fifty days. Gradual weaning can start from the fourth week, when the pups begin to spontaneously explore the surroundings of the maternal nest. In the event that mother cat is unable to nurse the kittens, you will have to resort to 'bottle-feeding:

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF KITTENS

A puppy has the need to eat regularly, with the interval between a meal and the other which varies from 2 to 6 hours depending on age.


    Baby 0 to 10 days is necessary to eat every 2 hours during the day, every 3 hours at night.
    Puppies from 10 to 15 days is necessary to eat every 3 hours during the day, every 4 hours at night.
    Puppies from 15 to 20 days is necessary that they eat every 4 hours during the day, every 5 hours the night.
    Puppies from 20 to 30 days is necessary that they eat every 5 hours during the day, every 6-7 hours the night.

The power supply must be up to 30 days only in special milk powder for puppies (advice in the first place "KMR" liquid or powder, "Primolatte kitten" Bayer's powdered milk from Royal Canin. Sconsiglio instead " Lactol "because many times it was due to severe intestinal blockage) or milk-based whole goat, or you can use the following recipe, widely used and has been very successful (proven by many users of the forum):

- 200 ML OF GOAT'S MILK COW'S MILK WHOLE OR FULL (better than the vaccine)

- 1-2 TEASPOON CREAM KITCHEN

- AN EGG YOLK (separate the yolk well, trying not to break it and throw all the egg white, then with a syringe without a needle to make a small hole in the cuticle and sucking, taking care not to suck even the skins. Warning albumen , because it causes diarrhea in kittens)

- A SPOON FROM SOUP Meritene VANILLA (is in powder form are proteins in milk are found in pharmacy from Novartis but not essential)

Mix everything together and beat well, use a bottle for children.
This milk mixture in the refrigerator lasts 3-4 days, just boil what you need for the meal.

Small addition.
If you notice that the cat poo is yellow and soft, then it means that it is super powered, halved doses of eggs and cream.

It can happen in a litter that there are puppies who need milk lighter.

The puppy should eat per day to 25-30% of its body weight divided by the number of daily meals.
For example, a puppy should eat 100 grams per day from 25 to 30 ml of milk.
The amount of milk to eat naturally be increased based on the increase of the weight of the puppy.
A puppy should be fed well every day also increased minimum (5 grams).
If weight gain is not there, or you're giving too little milk or milk is not substantial enough or still, the baby does not assimilate.

The milk must be administered to a temperature of about 38 degrees.

To administer the milk are the special bottle but can be dangerous if the milk flow is too fast it could go wrong, end up in the lungs and cause aspiration pneumonia leading the puppy to death in up to 48 hours.
A tool less dangerous is the syringe, needle private course, because the flow of milk is less and less the risk that goes askew.

Do not ever force a puppy that does not suck to eat with these two instruments because the milk goes through with the consequences described above.
Press just to get a drop of milk to taste the puppy.

Alternatively, you can also use the eyedropper, but feeding a puppy with the dropper is very laborious.
Taking into account that 30 drops are 1 ml of milk if a baby has to eat a meal, 5 ml, should be given the 150 drops, and frankly it gets long.
The dropper is to be taken into consideration only if you can not do in any other way and just having a lot of time and patience available.

To feed a kitten can be difficult to use a feeding tube that is in pharmacy and as the theme song has "K31".
This tube should be inserted directly into the stomach through the mouth and the milk that way goes directly into it.
Supplying power to the probe is not difficult, you just have to be careful not to end up in the lungs.
To find out if we ended up in the stomach or lungs is only one method.
If you take the path of the probe lungs will drop only 3-4 cm and then will stop if you go down in the stomach probe of 10 cm or more depending on the size of the kitten.

To get the exact size, take the probe rests at the mouth of the puppy, you do get to the outside to the navel and then makes a mark with a pen, that way you are totally safe.