How much Food??

[donnad]

I always feed my kittens to their full needs but in set given meals not ad lib & of course use what is your given choice....
I am not a "big dry " feeder of any of my cats but last babe had four meals a day at that age consisting of a full pouch each time & a few bikkies he has now been on adult food for past month as he decided babe wasn't for him any more { 5 + months} & is onto three feeds a day still a full puch but more bikkies,also find that adult food seems to fill & hold them more,have always had my babes weaned over early & put extra vits in the food but as latest one didn't seem to be putting on weight thought I would leave him on kitten longer but didn't work....
Babes never tend to eat more than they want so you aren't going to overfeed at this stage....... have fun & pictures please....xxx

Jackie, I am curious, how much food is in a pouch? a can is 5.5 oz (156g) I give Ginger one can 1/2 can twice a day and all of the dry she can eat usually during the night. As usual always worried she could be getting more.

[jckkerrison]

Jackie, I am curious, how much food is in a pouch? a can is 5.5 oz (156g) I give Ginger one can 1/2 can twice a day and all of the dry she can eat usually during the night. As usual always worried she could be getting more.

Hi donnad the kitten pouches weigh 100grms but the adult only 85grms which seems strange because there looks a lot more in the dish when you empty one out which makes me think there must be a good fluid content in kittie food which is not a bad thing but all my big cats are on tinned food at supper time,two only eat the equivalant of one adult as they are very small eaters but I can get enough out of a can to feed the three bigger eaters with just a few biscuits plus the other two smaller eaters & in the morning with them if they have sachets two do three of them & again only a very few biscuits......
Although when they are young they seem to put so much away you think they have empty legs it amazes me when adults they seem to eat even less than a normal moggie but must still get enough or they wouldn't be the giants they are.....x

Reading above back makes it look as if I starve them once they are past kitten hood but I don't I promise.....they do have a food maize where they can graze during the day but there is hardly anything put in it & normally there is some left so they can't be starving....

[Alekto]

hey all, sorry might be highjacking this thread a bit but I guess it's going to be beneficial to Lincoln in the long run....
wondering if everyone has the same experience as me: Neevie when she was "little" - up to 18 months I think - ate like a tiger! she was ALWAYS hungry, however much I fed her - if I boiled chicken (for her) she was actually trying to climb my leg getting to the boiling pan - really, in a permanent state of starvation - I fed her up to 6 pouches a day, she didn't like dry kibble much at the time... and really had to make the last pouch of the night a double one if I wanted to have some peace in the night.
now, she doesn't finish her 2 pouches a day, she does like a bit of dry kibble but not too much... the only thing she really jumps on is the "webbox lick-e-lix" - supposedly chicken yoghurt.
She is not skinny so I am not worried, but I am wondering about that... is that everyone else's experience too, that they eat like they've been starved for about a year and a half and then it abruptly stops?

[Bohemiannic]

Curently Pumpkin at 14 weeks is going through 1 and 1/4 kilos of chicken mince, 1 x 5.5oz can fish and as much dry food as she wants and treats of roast chicken and titbits from my husbands dinner (each night) in a week. She seems to burn a lot of the food off through running and jumping all over the house. She weighed in at 2 kilos (4.4 pound) at 13 weeks.

[jckkerrison]

hey all, sorry might be highjacking this thread a bit but I guess it's going to be beneficial to Lincoln in the long run....
wondering if everyone has the same experience as me: Neevie when she was "little" - up to 18 months I think - ate like a tiger! she was ALWAYS hungry, however much I fed her - if I boiled chicken (for her) she was actually trying to climb my leg getting to the boiling pan - really, in a permanent state of starvation - I fed her up to 6 pouches a day, she didn't like dry kibble much at the time... and really had to make the last pouch of the night a double one if I wanted to have some peace in the night.
now, she doesn't finish her 2 pouches a day, she does like a bit of dry kibble but not too much... the only thing she really jumps on is the "webbox lick-e-lix" - supposedly chicken yoghurt.
She is not skinny so I am not worried, but I am wondering about that... is that everyone else's experience too, that they eat like they've been starved for about a year and a half and then it abruptly stops?

Hi alekto.... I call that very natural.... although I said mine pull back a lot once they are adults perhaps I did word that a bit wrong, sorry, by 15 to 18 months they are eating a lot lot less than as a kitten but by the time they reach the 4 yr mark it seems to drop even more, I sometimes wonder how Shimba manages to tip over 10kg as his meal is quite miserly he lets his brother step in & eat the bits that he likes so he never eats his full share of a meal bless him.....!

[Castlecat]

hey all, sorry might be highjacking this thread a bit but I guess it's going to be beneficial to Lincoln in the long run....
wondering if everyone has the same experience as me: Neevie when she was "little" - up to 18 months I think - ate like a tiger! she was ALWAYS hungry, however much I fed her - if I boiled chicken (for her) she was actually trying to climb my leg getting to the boiling pan - really, in a permanent state of starvation - I fed her up to 6 pouches a day, she didn't like dry kibble much at the time... and really had to make the last pouch of the night a double one if I wanted to have some peace in the night.
now, she doesn't finish her 2 pouches a day, she does like a bit of dry kibble but not too much... the only thing she really jumps on is the "webbox lick-e-lix" - supposedly chicken yoghurt.
She is not skinny so I am not worried, but I am wondering about that... is that everyone else's experience too, that they eat like they've been starved for about a year and a half and then it abruptly stops?

Children are the same!!! I guess its when they're growing they eat masses and then they stop. My seven year old is very much like a maine coon in terms of build and personality. I think that's why I chose the breed!!!!

[AFK_Matrix]

From what I have read you should feed kittens as much as they want as cats won't over eat. They need the extra food as they are growing, when they are adults they should be fed around 2/3% of their body weight.