Kitten food

[solo2]

Do I really need to buy kitten food pouches over standard tinned stuff? Is the nutritional value of it really that much better than tinned food varieties?

It just looks like it is cut into smaller pieces to me so I thought I would ask if it is just that or not...

[Simpo Two]

Well, you have to wonder how kittens managed without it for the the last X million years...


'Marketing' is busy segmenting the markets for 'added value'; they just love it.

[Jasandjules]

Start them on raw food. Raw chicken wings, raw chicken mince and so on. They will love it. And more natural for them too IMHO.

[okgo]

Jasandjules said:

Start them on raw food. Raw chicken wings, raw chicken mince and so on. They will love it. And more natural for them too IMHO.

Yep.

We feed ours on raw chicken (although I do part cook it) and they love it, its also cheaper than cat food.

[BlackVanDyke]

Most of what's in the pouches (kitten or otherwise) is crud, but the kitten-specific ones might be slightly higher-protein/calorie crud than the ordinary ones. With Whiskas pouches you're paying for quite a lot of water with a bit of very very low-quality meat in.

My little'un was weaned on Applaws kitten tins, which on the face of it cost a fking fortune but they're SO high protein/calorie that they don't actually need to eat much (and have lovely healthy coat etc. to boot). Next best thing to doing a proper raw food diet, I reckon.

[Jasandjules]

BlackVanDyke said:

Next best thing to doing a proper raw food diet, I reckon.

If you can feed raw you might be surprised at how cheap it is.......

[okgo]

A big bag of frozen chicken bits is £4 and lasts our two a week.

[Jasandjules]

okgo said:

A big bag of frozen chicken bits is £4 and lasts our two a week.

Where do you get that from please!?

[okgo]

Sainsburys.

It's in the frozen section, it's basics chicken, but is fine for the cats.

[BlackVanDyke]

Jasandjules said:

BlackVanDyke said:

Next best thing to doing a proper raw food diet, I reckon.

If you can feed raw you might be surprised at how cheap it is.......

Not in the slightest opposed to it in theory but suspect that in practical terms it may not work in this household - having 5 different support people means introducing new ways of doing things can be a bit of a nightmare.

A nice parallel is that I've recently swapped from having bottled, marketed tube-feed formula (revolting stuff - mostly vegetable oil and whey powder!) to making my own at home. Despite instructions on how I prefer to do it being taped to a cupboard in the kitchen, complete with weights and measurements, the variation in what I end up being given is huge. Not sure I'd trust that amount of variation in the safe handling of raw meat...

okgo said:

Sainsburys.

It's in the frozen section, it's basics chicken, but is fine for the cats.

What else do you give them? I know that they can't live just on what we'd call meat (wings, breast etc) - they need other stuff too...

[okgo]

Royal canin biscuits in morning chicken at night.