At what age should kittens start eating food?

There was a mother cat that had 4 kittens at our house, but she later abandoned them. The kittens are about 3 weeks old, and right now we are feeding them Milk Replacement with a bottle. At what age should I start giving them food, and also what kind of food is best to give them?

Answer by Michala:D
My cat had 7.
I think they start arounddd maybe 5 weeks. or..4. Not sure. Exactly.
Or when they get teeth. Get kitten food. Like the soft stuff. Not wet food.
Good luck(:

Answer by Loch
any wet food is fine, science diet is good, and at 4 – 5 weeks they can have a teaspoon each a day. they will cry when they are hungry.

Answer by Pandabear !<3
I think 3-4 weeks is a good time. I would buy kitten dry food and put a bit of water on it, so it can dampen and it’ll be easier for the kitten to chew.

Hope i helped !
;D

Answer by E-Fox
I think you can start with food now.

Just make sure it’s good food.

Dry is not good, because cats are designed to get their hydration from what they eat, not by drinking. One article explains it well and I’m gonna paste a part of it for you here, it’s from the second webpage in my sources:

Cats evolved as desert creatures and are well adapted (still!) to survive in a dry climate, if fed their natural food. Cats are not thirst driven like dogs and are able to survive on less water than dogs. They compensate for reduced water intake by concentrating their urine. When fed a dry food diet (which has less than 10 percent moisture), unless they drink a lot of water, which most cats do not, they are in a constant state of dehydration. Moreover, although a cat consuming a dry food diet does drink more water than a cat consuming a canned food diet, in the end, when water from all sources is added together — what’s in their diet plus what they drink — the cat consumes approximately HALF the amount of water compared with a cat eating canned foods.6 On a dry food diet, a cat’s urine becomes overly concentrated which leads to feline lower urinary tract disease. Consumption of dry food is associated with lower urinary tract disease as is increased frequency of feeding (a.k.a “free feeding” which is how most people feed dry food), no matter what type of food is fed and obesity.

So now that dry is out of the way, look at the ingredients in the wet food.

It needs to be completely grain-free. Grain is not part of cat’s natural diet, and cats can’t process it. It’s too high in carbohydrate, that contributes to diabetes and obesity.

So if you stick to all wet grain-free diet, your kittens will get the proper nutrition and hydration to grow to healthy cats. In nature, the kittens wouldn’t eat anything different from the mother, and it’s always best to follow the nature

Here are the links where I learned about cat nutrition, they go into more detail and might be interesting for you.

Good luck!

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