Update of chin which its mom died

Hi everyone,

The baby chin is doing very well. She now eats about every 3 hours and is eating 5 cc at a time. I am feeding it a mix of water, condensed goat milk and kitten powder replacement formula. I mix enough for the day and feed as needed. The baby now runs like a crazy thing in its wheel, nibbles on food and timothy hay. It also rolls around like it would like to take a dust bath, but I don't know if it is old enough. Any suggestions on the dust bath? The baby started at 66 GMs and was 121 GMs yesterday. Here are some new PICS. Thank you so much for all the previous help getting us started caring for this chin.

Tanya

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what a little cutie! lolz..Congrats on the good work!!

Btw, i notice that you use a syringe instead of a dropper. Do be careful with syringes....when too much force is accidently applied to the syringe, the baby chin might choke on the milk. Would suggest glass droppers instead...JMO..

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Actually, I prefer using a syringe. The trick is to squeeze so that only a drop of milk appears at the end and then let the baby chin "chwe" it down. I prefer syringes over droppers because I feel I can get better control over the amount of milk that flows.

As for the dust bath issue; she looks a little too young to worry about dust bathing. Wait till she's about two months old. If you have another chin I suggest that you put her in with that chin when it dust bathes. I've found that some kits have to be "taught" by an adult how to dust bath.

Think most people here uses droppers. I have had previous problems with syringes as some of them are quite stiff and i unintentionally apply too much force...hence i have changed to droppers ever since...
I also found that i was able to feed a larger amount of milk when using droppers as compared to syringes..

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I guess we need to use what we are comfortable with. If you have friends in the medical profession you may be able to get clean insulin syringes which hold 1 cc.

Another advantage of a syringe is that I can measure the amount of milk the kit is consuming.

I really did not like the dropper method ... I had a hard time with it. I am a nurse and used to working with syringes I guess. I also raise parrots and do so much hand feeding with syringes, it just felt normal. I can say I prefer to use the syringes from the bird supply because the plunger has a single O ring on the plunger and the syringe moves well. With the O ring plunger you don't have to push hard. I have hand feed with syringes from work and much more pressure is needed and I have a much harder time applying the correct pressure with a work syringe. Every since I figured this out, I keep a very large supply of syringes from the bird supply on hand.

As for the baby chin, he knows what the syringe is. I let him run around the other night on my desk after his meal. His syringe was still on the desk and he was carrying it around. It was rather cute.