I live in the country, with barn cats that we feed everyday. One day, my grandpa saw four young kittens alone. We can’t figure out who’s the mom because she disappeared, so I took them in. Comparing to other pictures online, they look to be maybe in between 1-2 weeks or 2 weeks. I have them in a small dog kennel with a bed, blanket, training pad, and heating pad. Every night, I play hours long purring sounds for them. I try to feed them every 3-4 hours, however, when I’m gone at college for a few hours, I’m not able to.
I started with feeding them puppy formula, because that is all we had at the time and I raised up my previous two kittens with it. Last night (10/7/15) I went to Walmart and got PetAg Pre-made milk replacer that is stored in the fridge for 14 days. I’ve been feeding them that since. For some reason the bottles won’t work for them, so I have been using little syringes, feeding them 4-6 ml at a time each (not sure how much I should). I feel like I probably feed them around 5 or 6 times a day. I make sure the formula is warm before feeding. After feeding I burp them and then use a warm wet cotton ball on their bottoms. The biggest one will poop a little bit, however, I have yet to see the other three poop. I tried giving them 2ml of formula with a tiny bit of olive oil earlier today. I just recently tried putting a tiny bit of petroleum jelly on their anuses. I don’t know what else I should do?
Also, one of them are very small and never feels warm. I have the heating pad but he still feels more cool than the others. He is a little shaky when he walks too, i don’t know if this is because they are still young and he’s the runt or what. They all actively meow throughout the day and move around quite a bit though.
Please help me out. I don’t like feeling as if I’m going to pop them with all this intake and no outtake.