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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 21:05:21 GMT -5
when i got panda, he was very thin. what is the proper weight for a 5 1/2 wk kit? need to see how much he should be so i can gauge his feeding.
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Post by Sherry on Mar 11, 2012 21:14:16 GMT -5
No idea how much a neutered kit that age should weigh- but they SHOULD have a lot of baby pudge!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 21:17:21 GMT -5
this baby has NONE! you can feel the ribs and hip bones.
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Post by Sherry on Mar 11, 2012 21:20:31 GMT -5
Hand feed him all the raw soupies he can hold. Extra fat would be a good addition as well. Goat's milk wouldn't hurt either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 21:31:03 GMT -5
how much goats milk? he ate his first good sized meal of chopped/ground beef tonight. my blender is broken so i have been using baby food that is meat only. is that ok?
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Post by Sherry on Mar 11, 2012 22:40:49 GMT -5
If he's eating chopped and ground that's fine. He'll also need powdered or ground eggshell added in. 1/2tsp per 8 oz meat. Give him heart and liver as well for a balanced diet. For the amount of goats milk I'd say a tsp a day right now. If that amount is different, someone will correct me on it.
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Post by Heather on Mar 11, 2012 22:46:19 GMT -5
It's a good start--1 tsp. Make sure that you get a heavy amount of egg shell in your mix. This little one is going to need all the calcium and bone nutrients that you can get into him. A kit should be allowed to eat all the food they want to, no restrictions. Don't even try and figure out how much he should weigh...just feed
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 23:01:28 GMT -5
my concern is he is just started to eat raw meat and i dont think he is eating enough. it seems like his jaws get tierd easly with the meat and he will stop eating the meat, but if i syringe the baby food after he eats the meat, i can get him to eat a lot more. so do i continue with the baby food? he wont eat it out of a spoon or plate yet.
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Post by Heather on Mar 11, 2012 23:05:06 GMT -5
The problem with syringe feeding is over feeding. If you overfeed him after his meat meal, he will vomit up all his dinner. What if you mixed the baby food with his meat meal?
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 23:07:23 GMT -5
i will try that. the only problem that i may have is that he will only eat the meat when he sees the others eating it but i will try that in the morning.
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Post by Heather on Mar 11, 2012 23:08:58 GMT -5
He will learn to eat by watching the others. See if you can convince him to eat from the spoon. It will have to be quite liquid.
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 23:10:04 GMT -5
ok i will try.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 23:16:59 GMT -5
is thair any other form of calcium i can give him? i cant eat eggs and i really dont want to waste the eggs if i dont have to. but if i do then i will.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 23:33:40 GMT -5
I think you can use human-grade bone meal powder. I sprinkle some on heart and organ meals (since they have no available bone during these meals). Seems to help firm up poops and oddly, seems to help repel flies???  Ever since I started using bone meal powder, I've never had flies on the meals that had bone meal powder mixed in. Could be a coincidence, I'm not sure yet. Still experimenting. Now I just need to figure out how to keep the tiny gnat-like flies out of the litterbox  |
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Post by Sherry on Mar 12, 2012 8:57:39 GMT -5
You can also pick up cuttle bone, the type birds use. It's pure calcium as well. Just grind it up and put it on his food in the same proportions.
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