TINY kit question (picture)

[Barredhen]

We have a litter of kits about one week old. One kit I have been feeding by syringe, it is TINY. About 1/3 the size of its litter mates. It cannot really get around, if I set it on the table it just flops on its side and has a hard time getting back upright onto its sternum. It wouldn't have much, if any, chance to eat when mom feeds them, it just gets trampled to the bottom of the pile and doesn't have the ability to pop up and latch on like the others, even if it was the only kit she fed. It does have a sucking reflex and wants to eat, but lacks the strength and coordination to hold itself up to feed.
It does however have plenty of fight to live, as far as its able, and takes syringe feeding fairly well. It hates cat milk replacer so I'm doing some replacer, some goat milk and hoping thats OK. I do not know if it will make it, so far it is but its quite thin, and was wondering if anyone has seen one SO small pull through?

We just had another litter with a runt who just needed some help to make it. But this one was a much different situation.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

How's it doing?

 

[Persassy]

I have had this happen there is almost always a small one. I had to force feed kittens mult the first couple times i knkw this is pretty late but if that happens again I would force bunny to drink the kittins milk pretty soon bunny was able to fight his siblings for the milk

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Sounds like a runt to me, our dog was a runt and had to be bottle fed. I’m not sure why it happens though.

 

[cassie]

We have a litter of kits about one week old. One kit I have been feeding by syringe, it is TINY. About 1/3 the size of its litter mates. It cannot really get around, if I set it on the table it just flops on its side and has a hard time getting back upright onto its sternum. It wouldn't have much, if any, chance to eat when mom feeds them, it just gets trampled to the bottom of the pile and doesn't have the ability to pop up and latch on like the others, even if it was the only kit she fed. It does have a sucking reflex and wants to eat, but lacks the strength and coordination to hold itself up to feed.
It does however have plenty of fight to live, as far as its able, and takes syringe feeding fairly well. It hates cat milk replacer so I'm doing some replacer, some goat milk and hoping thats OK. I do not know if it will make it, so far it is but its quite thin, and was wondering if anyone has seen one SO small pull through?

We just had another litter with a runt who just needed some help to make it. But this one was a much different situation.

Try evap. I have raised puppies and kittens on evaporated milk diluted five parts milk and one part water. For kittens I added an egg yolk. All the kittens I have raised HATED KMR. The puppies didn't like the puppy replacer much either.