Also, 1-3 boiled/raw eggs per week are suggested too. Chicken or rabbit are my main choices when it comes to feeding foxes this age. Cooked fish is good too, but should not be used as a primary source of food. Along with the canned kitten/puppy food should be added raw chicken, turkey, beef, deer. All they eat goes into their development, to maintain them healthy and to cover their energy loss from playing all day. Between 1 month old and 5 months old, a fox kit should be fed whenever it's hungry they are in growth, they won't store any fat. Canned kitten/puppy food or raw chicken is good for them. An all-meat diet is recommended at this age, to ensure the proper protein ingestion. Use a wet tissue to gently stroke the urino-genital area (1-2 mins) while holding the kit upwards, over a towel.ī) Kit (1 month - 5 months): Around- 3- 4 weeks old, fox kits start eating solid food. Stimulate your kit to defecate/urinate after each bottle feeding session.
Feed the kit minimally 6 times per day, but recommended to feed every 3 hours. Feed with a kitten/puppy bottle or 3-4 ml syringe. Use puppy milk replacement formula (Esbilac or goat milk). Leave the kit with its mom for at least 10 days. Make sure to do this every 2-3 hours, after each bottle feeding session. It takes in general between 1-2 minutes for the kit to urinate or defecate. Place an old towel under it, to avoid a mess. To stimulate the kit, dampen a soft tissue in water, and gently stroke the urino-genital area in a downwards motion while holding the kit in a semi-vertical position/almost upright (head upwards, of course). Often, kits under a week 1/2 old require stimulation in order to urinate or defecate.
I recommend Esbilac replacement or simply goat milk. Bottle feeding fox kits requires a minimum of 6 feedings per day, however, it is recommended to feed them every 3 hours.
Let the kit lie on its belly, the natural feeding position. With a 3-4 milliliter syringe or a small bottle specialized designed to bottle feed young animals. Bottle-feeding a fox, like any other animal, is no easy duty. The longer the kit will stay with its mother, the better it will be for his health and physical development. Below is just an example, there can be slight or major variations from a diet to another some prefer to feed only raw, while others kibble - which is not encouraged/healthy: portions of raw or boiled meat are a must!).Įxtra: Vulpes vulpes (red foxes) of light colour phases (with blue, green or pale grey eyes) require a higher dose of Vitamin D (helps with the storage of calcium) and of calcium itself, as they have difficulties when it comes to properly storing calcium in their system.Ī) Newborn (0 days - 1 month): It is preferable to allow the kit to feed on his mother's milk for at least 10 days. Diet.(keep in mind that the diet is variable it is not necessarily at all for it to be identical as the one below.
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