¿Cómo ALIMENTAR a un GATO de 1 MES? 🐱 (Alimentación de un Gato Bebé)

If you have just had a very young kitten come into your life, and especially if you have never been in this situation before, you may be wondering what to feed a one month old feline. In this video by an animal expert, we bring you the information you need to be able to raise a one month old kitten. Let's get started. At three weeks, kittens should ingest at least 130 calories per kilo through milk, whether mother's milk or formula. When they reach one month of age, this increases to 200 to 220 calories per kilo per day spread over four or five daily feedings. From then on, their needs grow much more slowly. So a one and a half month old cat should consume about 225 calories per kilo per day and when it reaches five months it will be a maximum of 250 calories per kilo per day. @ this age their growth will be fairly complete and they will need less daily energy until they reach one year of age. The daily calories of a standard adult cat are between 70 and 80 calories per kilo per day. Normally, one month old kittens still drink mostly milk if they are with their mother in a house, although since they have already teeth, they show interest in solid food. Because of this, when they are free, the mother usually offers prey to her kittens. If a one month old orphaned kitten has just arrived in our lives, it is important to know that at four weeks of age their diet should start changing, although it should largely be based on kitten formula. Find out how many times a cat should eat per day according to their age in the video that we have left for you here above. How to Feed a one month old Kitten when we are in charge of a one month old cat, we can start offering them wet kitten food, but if they are not interested, it is better to leave it for later or try another food. Another option, especially if we don't have any type of food for one month old cats, is to try a homemade diet such as offering them pieces of chicken and seeing if they are interested. Some cats can be very interested in this type of food, so we must not overdo it to avoid causing indigestion since they are still very young. To encourage weaning, the bottle with which a cat is fed during its first weeks of life should be changed for a small a small plate of milk to teach them to drink from it. In addition, little by little, we should add a quantity of commercially available kitten food that will be softened. This will make it easier for the kitten to start eating it. This amount of food should be gradually increased until it is completely fed with it around seven weeks. The best food that can be given to a kitten until it becomes an adult is a food specifically formulated for kittens which the mother can also feed them until the end of lactation. Above is a video in which we talk about the nutritional needs of cats. Summary of Feeding a Cat in short, a kitten should be fed as follows from birth. First, they should be fed with milk formulated for baby cats when they are four weeks old. Dry food should be introduced to encourage weaning and always done gradually, starting with very little kibble in relation to milk until this ratio is reversed and finally, only kibble is given. In addition, never forget that they have a bowl of water available. They should be fed about four or five times a day and it is not advisable for them to always have food available as it can cause them to become satiated. It should also be taken into account that from one month to six months of age, a kitten's energy needs are three times the amount of an adult, so the food should be more energetic. Ideally, they should be offered kibble marketed for kittens. Finally, when they reach seven weeks of age, they should be fed exclusively with dry kibble or wet food for kittens. If you want to continue learning more about cat care, check out the playlist we've left for you right here. Tell us, did you just adopt a kitten? Until next time, experts.