now we have to hand feed them
Make sure they poop as well. No need to lick them though, a slightly wet washcloth should do the trick.
And have your butfer ready
Yes, of course! Whatever the fuck that is.
I should have elaborated.
The kittens arent showing any syptoms of being ill, short of hypothermia and starvation, and we didn't touch them at all until last night. The cat just stopped taking care of them, i'm guessing two days ago. Two of them were dead last night and a third was dead by this morning. He wasn't taking any of the milk we tried to give them. The remaining four seem healthy and are eating and pooping, we have their crate near the furnace now to keep them warm through the night.
I know how to take care of kittens, god guys. We had to do this with this cat's previous litter after about two months too (they were all perfectly healthy and survived, she just hates them, they're getting adopted out now), and some years ago when a mother got hit by a car. Cat's going to the pound, or put down. She has plenty of other behavioral issues including spraying in the house and destroying things (why they were in the storage shed by the water pump instead of inside) and fighting with the other cats. No shelters in the area that will take adults, we can't afford to fix her there's a better behaved female that needs to be fixed before first.
I am so fucking pissed at this situation right now, we had three females pregnant at the same time, all of them dragged home from the woods, behind a dumpster, and because my brother's friend didn't want the one. 15 kittens in total, only 5 have been adopted. It costs $100 per animal at any veterinary clinic in the area to fix them (seriously, yes), two female kittens are getting old enough they need to be fixed and so does the other, well-behaved adult. I guess the only real good news is the majority of the kittens were male and the other two females got adopted first.
I'd start a fucking kickstarter. "Help stifle a catsplosion, $100 per animal!" Somehow I don't think that'd fly.