A few suggestions or comments based on what I have read above.

1. No treats for babies. Period. None. I would avoid treats for kits until they are at least six months old if not older. Actually my chins (adults and babies) consider themselves fortunate if they get a raisin a month. There is absolutley no health reason for chins to get treats. We give treats because it makes us happy to see the chins eating them but remember we are acting as "parents' to our chins and have to be the one responsible for making sure they get a healthy diet.

2. Make sure any juice you offer your chins is sugar free. Too much sugar will cause soft poop.

3. Please, please do not feed your baby chin supplemental milk unless you are 100% sure that it is not getting any milk from mother. There is nothing better than mother's milk for a kit so do not offer an alternative until there is no choice. If you supplement unnecessarily it will lead to the kit taking less from mom which in turn will result in mom producing less milk creating a vicious cycle where you will end up feeding the kit more and more supplement (not so good stuff) at the expense of its mother's milk (good stuff).

I have found that mothers are capable of feeding any litter up to and including triplets entirely on their own. I have seen my females raise well over 50 litters and the only time I have ever had to supplement was when quads were delivered. What you should do with any litter is monitor the growth of the kit. It should gain 2-5 grams each day for the first 12 weeks or so.

Please also note that most babies loose a few grams in weight the day after they are born. This is perfectly normal. Do not panic when this happens and start supplementing.

4. If you absolutely must supplement use powdered goats milk rather than pet milk powder. Most pet milk powders are for dogs or cats (i.e. carnivores) and have the wrong nutrient set for chins (i.e herbivores). You can get goat's milk from most NTUCs in Singapore. Again, DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE THAT THE KIT IS NOT GETTING MILK FROM ITS MOTHER.

5. If you have to supplement a kit or hand feed it; drop me a pm for detailed instructions. This is not easy to do and takes incredible patience and discipline. I had a mother die a day after delivering twins which I had to hand raise. Imagine feeding baby chins every two hours, round the clock, for 8 weeks. Each feed takes about 30 minutes and involves feeding the kit one drop at a time until it has consumed about 2 ccs of milk. I would suggest that you be ready to make this kind of commitment to keeping a kit alive before you start breeding.

6. Alfalfa hay is not necessary unless you are feeding a pellet that is based on timothy hay. Mazuri and Kline are both alfalfa based pellets. If you are feeding those I would not recommend anything more than an occasional bit of alfalfa for nursing chins or kits. Too much alfalfa in a diet will cause soft poop.

7. If you feel you must supplement the mother chin I would not suggest Vitamin C. Please try rolled oats instead. Just a table-spoon every two days will be sufficient. As for NutriCal; that stuff is nothing more than sugar in a tube. I would never offer it to a chin.