loosing kittens from fading kitten syndrum

i have to cats the had babies starting  4/6/13 till 4/7/13 for one lost 3 kittens from her litter .2 withing 12 hrs of eachother and the tird with 24 after birth . 2nd cat had her litter 4/8/13 . lost here first kitten last night and onother is dieng now do to  fading kitten syndrum. very hard to deal with hoope i we don't lose anymore. there would of been 11 kittens total but now down to 7 getting ready to go to 6 kittens. Charlotte had 5 kittens  now down to 2 kittens . nightsky had 6 kittens  now down to 5  but going to be 4 kittens.the neat thing os that thay have been help eachother take care of each others baby since nightsky wnet into labor on the 8th. they fead eachother babies help cleann eachohters babies . the  even share the same nest. they are sister. wish i knwo how to stop them from ding from this faded kitten syndrum. i put a flease blanket in to try to help keep them warmer. and other sugjestion.

not happy loosing so meny kittens and haveing to barry so meny i love them and really don't want to loose anymore.

I wish you the best luck, and hope others will fill in with advices...

As you say, the fading kittens syndrome is a cruel opponent.  Seldom much to do, the only is often to make it comfortable for them.

Are you sure they do get enough food from the moms?  Ie, do the moms have enough food for them?

The best way to know is to weigh them every day.  Use a scale weighting in gram, best electrical scale.

They dont cost much.

This wont help these dying now, but it may help these who are OK at this moment.

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Good luck!

Have they been to the vet? If not, how do you know that it's Fading Kitten Syndrome? To lose that many seems like something must be wrong. What kind of food do the mother cats get? How much of it do they eat? How old are they? Have the mother cats tested negative for FeLV? Are they indoors or outdoors? I do hope you can find the cause and remedy it before you lose all of them .

And, of course, it would best to have the mother cats spayed ASAP so this tragedy doesn't happen again.

I see you had tried to read on, as you had this excellent article in the parallell thread.

You found both this old parallell thread (probably also other threads on Fading kittens)  AND this vet article...

A good advice there was to give them some sugar on their gum. A little wet dextrose (glucose) sugar is best, but honey or white caro sugar will also work.  Probably even common kitchen sugar, but it will be slower.   It may perk them up so they have the force to take milk.

They must of course be enough warm.  You can try and massage them a little, limbs, back, tummy...

Giving them milk with a dropper is easier for them than suckling.

The drawback is they dont longer get moms milk.  Goat milk is OK, or use some good kitten mother milk replacement...  With a little luck they can drink some from mom too.

Also some pedialyte with dropper, so they dont get dehydrated.

Good luck!

Willowy said:

And, of course, it would best to have the mother cats spayed ASAP so this tragedy doesn't happen again.

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A sound long term advice, but it is rather not useful here and now.  

Not even to mention, it cant be done JUST NOW, it will be probably done when the surviving kittens are 8 weeks +.

i know was planing on it befor they got preg but didn't happen way i had planed i will try everything  you all sugested .and then some . vet will be soon. kittens were born healthy and looked healthy then startded droping off geting weaker not being able to suckly off dropper or anything. the only thing i haven't tried was the suger. these are there first little. and my first kittens in 30 yrs so was and out of pratice and the reason i looked up it anyway to get an idea of what could cause such tragdady. and when i read the artical i read it is what i was seeing  in my kittens healthy livly kittens just  getting weaker  not being able suckle ect.

thank for all the help and advice and i will keep up and lett every one know what happend.

oh i've nenn feeding trouble kittnes with kitten replacer and they have been still feading of boths moms