My week old kittens are getting bigger everyday, what age do kittens start eating regular kittens food?
What age do kittens start eating regular kittens food?
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EDIT: My bad, I misread your question. But I’m going to leave my answer up anyway because it’s good advice about choosing a food – once they’re ready to start eating it.
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Any age if you feed them good food. "Kitten" food is little more than marketing.
Good food is either a properly balanced raw meat diet or a good quality canned food, such as those found in the links below.
You can switch your kitten to any of these foods at any time, and they will benefit immensely!
From my blog:
Do kittens need to eat "kitten" food?
My impression is no, and this entry will detail my research.
Why do I care? I don’t have kittens, but this question has come up on Answers and I want to know the truth.
Why do I think the answer is no? Old Cat Lady says so. That’s good enough for me but I want to be able to cite sources.
Little Big Cat has failed me here. This site has provided some info: http://www.maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm.
Energy Requirements for Kittens and Adult Cats
Age kcal/lb body wt
Kittens: 10 weeks 113
20 weeks 59
30 weeks 45
40 weeks 36
Adult Cats: Inactive 18
Active 20-30
Pregnant 45
Lactating* 56–145
So it appears that kittens need many more calories than adults. So why not just feed them more?
This site has another table showing the minimum protein allowances for cats v. kittens. It boils down to kittens needing 4% more protein than adults. There were other items in there, but it didn’t vary widely at all.
Kittens need the same amount of fat.
They need a little more calcium, phosphorous and magnesium.
So in essence, it appears that so long as the food is adequately high in protein, your kitten will get what it needs – regardless of marketing hype.
at 4-6 weeks (when there teeth are fully in) and thats only when weaning them off the mothers milk and at about 6-8 weeks they should be eating by themselves oh and when you start feeding them give them soft canned foods but not alot and other then that get some hard food an make it soft by adding water but not to much where it will be soaked. if you have to get some on ur finger and put it infront of their nose then on their tounge good luck (=