Thank you so much for the links! I’ll be reading through those tonight! 🙂 It os definitely challenging! The youngest we’ve taken in up until now was 3 weeks, but these guys were in a bit of a pickle and I figured at least us taking a stab at it would give them a chance!
We are definitely being cautious about keeping them warm. I have a fleece blanket over their kennel (just not covering the door part) to try and help keep some heat in, and they also have a towel on the bottom with a SnuggleSafe heater in the middle and a fleece blanket over the heater (and room to move around the heater if they get too warm). So far I THINK it seems to be doing the job (sadly the only thing I don’t have is a thermometer to keep track of their temps). We did have one sucessful poop this evening, thank goodness! The other two I am taking you advice and being patient (or trying to, haha)!
We had one can of KMR liquid and a can of the powder. We are finishing up using the liquid now (their next feeding will probably finish the can). After that they will have to be on the powder. I will definitely look into the goat’s milk! Having something to alternate with the KMR sounds awesome! The one poop we did get was mushy, but nothing that overly concerned me, however I believe they were being given the powder only from the person who passed them along to us, so it may be that having the powder first, and then the liquid helped balance out the constipation/runs issue? I will definitely be keeping an eye on it regardless, so thanks so much for the tip!
I will stop after work tomorrow and see if I can find some bottles! We had one single one that was given to us with the kittens, but unfortunately we made the needle mistake and the nipple ended up ruined as we tried to correct the issue. 🙁
This definitely helped, so again, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I feel so much better knowing there’s others out there who have gone through the kitten struggle and are willing to help an overly anxious new kitten mom out, haha! 🙂