Kit refusing to nurse.

[a7736100]

I got a runt that's not interested in mother. While the other 8 kits scramble for a good tit, this one heads towards the pellets. Trouble is I don't think he's going to make it as he is half the size of the others and there's no meat on his back bone. At first I thought he was being edged out but I put him alone with mom and he wasn't interested.

 

[Dood]

And..... ?

Do you want advice?

 

[ladysown]

you can't force a kit to do what it doesn't want to. All you can do is supplement it with kitten formula or goats milk. Oatmeal, hay and probiotics help too.

 

[akane]

Try soaking the pellets in goat milk or formula and feeding it to the kit. I've raised 2 week olds that way a few times.

 

[a7736100]

Well, he died over night. I think some kits just have genetic flaws that keeps them from developing. It's probably best not to try and save them so you get rid of bad genes. They are not dwarfs so I know it's not death by double dwarf genes.