Hello All

My cat had 5 kittens last Friday and they are all doing well. I have been weighing them everyday and they are all putting on around 15-25g a day.

I was just wondering how long I need to keep weighing them for?

Thanks

They are obviously doing very well if they are putting on between 15 and 25gms a day, as for how long well its really up to you, we breed ped Ragdolls here and we weighed our kittens daily for the first 2 weeks then weekly until they left us but this was purely as a record for their new owners to keep should they wish.........good luck.........Chris

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I usually try to weigh mine daily until they are around 3 or 4 weeks and then weekly unless I have any cause for concern about them.
It sounds as if your kittens are doing very well

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I knew as soon as I said they were putting on plenty one of them wouldn't. I weighed them earlier and one has only put on 3g. I'm gonna weigh him again a bit later to double check as I wonder if he had just done a poop as mum was cleaning him.

I wouldnt worry to much after a gain of 15-25gram there is bound to be a bit of a dip as they normally gain from 8-15, so I wouldnt worry, id weigh him again at the same time tom, and your prob see a gain again, its normal for kittens to gain and then gain a little, its when they start losing its time to worry.

weigh them everyday until 4-5weeks, then I go to every 2-3days, then 4-5days until they go at 12-13weeks of age, then they are weighed twice at the vets to, some new owners tend to keep them up every month for their own records, got some 10 month old previous kittens weighing in at 4.5kg & 11lb lol!

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Blimey!

Well I weighed the kitten 12 hours later and he had put some 6g on so it was ok.

They are all doing really well,

Thanks everyone for you help.