Kitten feeding help

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I'm at my wits end.....I dont know if everybody knows but I have 3 bottle babies that are 5 weeks old now. (i've had them since they were 3 days old) They are little chunkers and ate very well off the bottle. They are peeing/pooping on their own, but are refusing to eat anything but the bottle. I've been trying to trick them, watered down the KMR and mixed in Science Diet A/D wet food and they drink that out of the bottle. I put out a bowl of A/D and they think its just to walk through. I've refused to give them the bottle and left the bowls of different wet food down for 2 hrs to see if they will eat and nobody wants to even taste it. I've tried every wet food I have in my house but I don't know what to do. I'm just looking for suggestions or if any certain food was a big hit with your bottle babies. They are ready for food because when I give them the bottle they chew and don't remember how to suck until I hold their little mouths closed around the nipple. I think the kittens are frustrated with me and I'm frustrated with them. PLEASE HELP!!
 
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well good news i got 2 out of the 3 to eat wet food........woohoo!!
 

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The first thing you want them to do is lapping rather than bottle sucking. For the one that's not eating wet food yet, put some KMR in a shallow bowl and get him/her to lap. Once they have that movement down, you start to introduce food.

I know your frustration - the last orphaned litter I had wouldn't wean until 8 weeks old. They had me trained - I couldn't say no to them when they refused to lap. My friend took 2 of them at 5 weeks old and had them lapping in a few days. Mine held out until 8 weeks. We used the same method (shallow bowl with KMR). I guess I'm the bigger sucker.
 
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