The importance of milk for kittens

Surely the mother cat's milk is better than formula milk, but sometimes there are certain constraints so that the mother cat is not able to breastfeed her child as the mother is sick, or even die so that the parent must take care of your own kittens.

Newborn kitten is still very weak to visit disease. Therefore kittens need to have antibodies in the body. Ideally kitten antibody was obtained from the parent itself is through its mother's milk. Colostrum is a liquid produced from the nipple mother after the mother cat gave birth during the first 48 hours.

Colostrum is whitish and viscous and contains protein antibodies, vitamins and various nutrients such as immunoglobulin, lactalbumin, lactoferrin, cytokines, glycoproteins and other memorable to fight viruses such as allergies, bacteria and toxins.

Colostrum has a very high benefits than milk and colostrum actually gives provision for immunity immune formation that can ensure the health of your kitten newborn.

Tempo immune antibodies from colostrum is dependent upon the amount of antibody contained in the mother cat, therefore, if the amount of antibodies in the mother cat bit, then the immune potency kitten is also very low.

Antibodies in colostrum also known as maternal antibodies. Maternal antibodies contained in the blood of kittens will be reduced gradually entered the week 6 to week 8.

Therefore, it is recommended that cats are given the vaccine at the age of 9 weeks for the kitten has a sufficient immune antibodies to fight infection and disease selanjudnya then kittens in accordance vaccine schedule.