I wasn’t sure if I should post this in purrs or cafe but seeing as I’m looking for advice I’ll just post here.
I have two 4 week old kittens that I have been bottle feeding. And I’m finally getting them to also eat some wet kitten food. I mix up their formula and add 1 tsp of canned food to each of their dishes (I finally got them to eat from a dish! :D) Should I add 2 tsp each instead? On the can it says 1 oz per lb of body weight, and from what I can gather 6 tsp is 1 oz, so if I feed them 1 tsp 3 times a day that’s only half what the can says they need, as they are 1 lb each. (Unless I’m wrong on the conversion) The brand is NutriSource: chicken, turkey, lamb, & fish(which I would have preferred it not to include fish). Is this a good brand? I spent way too much time in my local pet store today making sure to read all of the labels and this was the only one that wasn’t full of vegetables, grain, or carrageenan.(though it does list brown rice flour, dried kelp, alfalfa meal, and yucca schidigera extract. whatever that is.) I’ll eventually add more wet food and less formula but I’m not sure how much I need to be adding.
Also, the can lining is white, I read somewhere that that could be bad as its better if the lining was something else I cant remember exactly..
Oh, and how long does canned food last in the fridge. The cans I bought are the 5 oz ones as they didn’t come in the smaller size :/