Is kitten glop better than store-bought KMR?

I had never seen a recipe for homemade kitten formula before coming to this forum, and I've seen it recommended to a few people on some old threads.  Is it better than the store-bought stuff or something?  Or is it just in case you need kitten formula in a hurry and there's none available locally?  

My orphaned kitties are now old enough that they don't really need milk anymore, but I'm still giving it to Bestimus to help him put on a little weight.  I just mix it into his food.  Maybe I should switch to homemade stuff?  

I personally prefer formulas made with actual food ingredients :tongue2:. Most store-bought formulas are made with nothing but corn syrup solids and vegetable oil. . .ick. I would probably chicken out and use KMR if I had newborn orphans (just because it's "proven"), but I've used homemade formula for older orphans with great results. So, yeah, at this point, for mixing into food, I think a homemade formula would be fine.

I prefer brand name formula's used by and recommended by other breeders. Our formula's have different ingredients to the US though, no corn syrup. 

Isn't Karo Syrup, used in kitten glop corn syrup? 

Yeah, Karo syrup is corn syrup. But there's not very much in the recipe. What do they use in the UK brands?

Anyway, KMR at least has some milk in it; some other brands don't. Whey protein is still the first ingredient, though.

Goat's milk is better than cow's milk, if you can get it.

Willowy said:

What do they use in the UK brands?
 

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I have no idea, perhaps someone from the UK can answer that. 

Google got me lots of information about Cimicat which is the commonest replacement milk in the UK:

Nutrient Composition

Protein 33%, Fat 22%, Ash 6%, Vitamin A 40,000 iu/kg, Vitamin D 8,000 iu/kg, Vitamin E 250mg/kg

Ingredient Listing

Spray dried skimmed milk, specially selected vegetable oils and fats, spray dried milk albumin, spray dried whey products, fractionated lecithin emulsifier, L.Lysine, D.L.Methionine, L.Threonine, Taurine, Permitted anti-oxidants BHT & BHA.

Added Minerals

Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Sodium, iron, Copper, Manganese, Cobalt, Zinc, Iodine, Selenium.

Added Vitamins

B1, B2, B6, B12, A, C, D, E, Nicotinamide, Calcium pantothenate, Folic acid, Oratic Acid, Choline Chloride, Biotin

From http://www.petdrugsonline.co.uk/p-1102-cimicat-milk-replacement.aspx

Eww, that looks as bad as the U.S brands. BHA and BHT? For babies?

What brands do they use in Australia?

It just bugs me how bad those ingredients are, when none of us would consider feeding anything like that to our adult cats.

Willowy said:

It just bugs me how bad those ingredients are, when none of us would consider feeding anything like that to our adult cats.

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A radical solution is to try to find and give goat milk.  Which as many rescuers do witness, works  at least OK, some swear works excellently.

This is a little pecular, the lactose contain in goat milk as as high as in cow milk. But in practice works much better tha cow milk.   

I once saw in UK there is a kmr brand made with goat milk as main ingredient.  (dont rmemeber the name)  I suppose this kmr should be OK if you really want to have an industrial made kmr.

Also, many of the best kitten glops have goat milk as main ingredient.

Although, as said, it is not necessery.  Bare  goat milk works OK.

I had 2 orphans around 24 hours old a few years ago and used a glop recipe and they did extremely well on it