Exotic rocks of cats and cats make the owners and breeders carefully monitor their health status. Uncucklored or bust by weight - a sign of health-related violations: as a result, it can significantly reduce the life expectancy of the cat or cat. In addition, it's easy to estimate what kind of breed will result in a pet grow.
General
Scottish cats are not particularly large size, this breed looks more graceful than British. It does not matter, direct ears from him or hanging - weight scatter by months of the first year of life will be the same.
Scottish cat is distinguished by developed muscles: the muscles of the body are well developed, and the length of the body and the weight is medium. Adult cat or cat weigh 5-7 kg. It happens that weight is noticeably more - from 8 kg, the answer to the question about the weight rate is ambiguous here.
How much newborn kitten weigh?
At birth, not only standards for a single kitten are important, but also the total number of kittens when there are more than one. If it was born, for example, 5 kittens, the weight of each will be significantly less than if they were born only 3. Cat womb in which they were formed before the appearance of the light is limited throughout life. There is no free space - there is a limit for each adult female. Nature came up with a way out of the situation, having reduced the mass of each of the cubbeds born by this individual.
Subsequently, the weight of each kitten approaches the age rate of the first year of life, but it is worth providing all the kittens an additional lure, when the cat's cat is produced little milk. Typical weight of Scottish kittens at birth is 60-140 g . If the cat is provided with adequate power, recreation and walks, then the kittens will not be critical weightless weight.
Weight Dynamics for the first weeks of life
The first 2 weeks each Scottish kitten is gaining on average 15 g per day. It is necessary to ensure a full-fledged nutrition of the cat. It is also suitable for its milk mixtures, created for kittens in case, if this cat would assume, would die during childbirth. Some bust in feeding will not hurt the cat: afterwards it all excess food will give kittens through all the same breast milk.
At the end of the "breast period", the kittens she herself will adjust its normal weight. Over the first week, the weight of each kitten will grow on average, greater than 100 g. The total weight of the kitten in 2 weeks from the moment of birth will reach an average of 270 g. Little cats are lighter than quotes of 1.5 times.
For 3 weeks, kittens to accelerate the weight gain (if necessary) give additional lures. The third week of life of the kitten will bring his weight on average until 400 g.
If the kitten continues to normally gain weight, then you can still rely on the cat-mother, but not long. The day comes when the kitten still needs to be filing with high-quality feline products so that they subsequently grow out or the cat did not encounter a number of diseases, including age.
Weight in the first months of life
By the end of the first month of life, the kittens will be raised on average 0.5 kg of weight. By 2 months, the weight approaches or exceeds a kilogram. After the 3rd month, the weight is installed at 1.5 kg or more. After 4 months after birth, each of the kittens "sweating" an average of up to 2.8 kg.
The speed of the weight gain is non-linear - by the end of the first year of life, growth slows down until stopped (adult male or female "Scottish"). From the 5th month, a set of body weight begins to slow down, and the kitten reaches 3.2 kg. When tracking the dynamics of weight gain approximately 20% of the situation is predetermined and genetic data of both parents. A semi-annual kitten weighs an average of about 2 kg.
Starting from six months, the weight table of the growing cat or cat is kept to the following averages: By the end of the 7th month - 4.5 kg, in the 8th - 4.8, in the 9th - 5, in the 10th - 5.2, in 11th - 5.3 kg. By the beginning of the next year of life, a young cat or a cat should weigh approximately 5.4 kg. An adult cat is inherently the same cat is often 2 times: it can weigh 6 kg, it is 3 kg. From that moment on, the cat or cat is considered adults.
The amount of feed, weather conditions (if the animal comes to fresh air), the absence of acquired chronic diseases and genetics has been crucial in the weight category. It was often where the cat "drummed", giving him above the norm, which is why he gained the maximum weight - up to 7.5 kg. Further bust or undeveloped - 100% no longer the norm.
Feeding in the first year of life
Like the kittens of other breeds, the Scottish up to 3 weeks consume only maternal milk. If there was a misfortune, for example, the Scottish cat died in childbirth, from malignant diseases or with random poisoning, or ran into the roadway, refused to feed the kittens and other accidents, then milk mixtures are suitable for the emergency kittens, which are extremely close to feline milk.
Not bad products produce, for example, firm ROYAL CANIN, Specializing mainly on dog and catfish. Manufacturers of such products are followed so that the fatness does not exceed 10%, and the vitamin filling of the compositions was sufficient for a growing organism in dogs and cats.
If there is no specialty store or veterinary store with a mini-store, in which you can pick up food for any kittens and puppies, act yourself. Rustic (farmer) milk to reduce fat They are bred in half with boiled water or purify it from the cream and give it to tying a newborn kitten. Begin to disappear From day to day, gradually reducing the number of food receptions per day, but increasing the volume of each dust.
As a basis, you can take the nutrition of any average migratory kitten - all kittens consume approximately the same amount of milk. Specific breed - all the same Scottish cats - demand in the first days and weeks of life their scope of food, but save the lives to your ward and give it to grow, adhering to the norm of "street" kittens, you are able to.
The main thing is not to overpay, do not unoccuping and not forget about the regularity of feeding, otherwise the kitten will get in the weight set, not quite correctly develop, which will lead to illness and premature death afterwards.
What to give?
After about 20 days of life, the kitten is permissible to introduce other lures. Whether it is an industrial feed or boiled beef / chicken, try to stick to one power line. If you do not have time to cook a piece of meat every day, you want to go to dry food, but it is necessary to do it gradually that the body of the kitten managed to adapt.
It was in the first months of life that the cat is forming taste preferences, which he will adhere to. After a month, the kitten can be studied from the consumption of milk alone. On one milk, an adult cat lives long - he needs other products.
Do not strive for the first days of your dust right to give, except for meat (or feed), several other products, somehow: yolk of the boiled egg, black bread, broth. This is not an adult cat, and the kitten can be indignant. A cat is not a man, such a variety on the very first day he will not stand, it will be quit, act gradually.
If the goal is to diversify the power of the Scottish Goth, do not mix in one meal of several products. If the kitten under the tail is formed rash, then this is already allergic. After responding in a timely manner, you exclude the product, which caused it. In addition to the general rules of the diet, each animal has its own "unloved" product.
Raw yolk is given by the same recommendations as milk with cream. As for the industrial feed, then kittens, just overlapping the one-month age, need to be preliminary disconnected. 1.5 months later, that is, already at 2.5 months old, they will learn it in a dry form, but do not forget about regular letters in the "cream" of fresh water.
Before the kittens are 3 months old, do not give them canned food and raw mince - the processes of digestion are not immediately self-configurable for the assimilation of such products. After three-month-old age, the kothenka approaches the adult cat or cat menu. The mother's cat should be protected: too late feeding kittens with natural feline milk can lead to exhaustion and early aging of its body. Everything is good in moderation, and experienced breeders clearly realize.
What threatens rough diet violations?
Correspondence can lead to premature depreciation of the gastrointestinal organs, in particular, to problems with the liver and pancreas. The same applies to the use of cheap, low-quality feed, since the cat is not a rooster, it cannot digest, for example, low-quality grain.
An attempt to translate exotic cats, originated on the feed, on the bone and other products from the human table only the negative result will bring. Such an adventure often ends with the death of these animals - they flatly refuse food.
Tips of breeders on how to feed kittens correctly, are presented in the video below.