Weaning bottle babies

My foster bottle babies are 6 weeks old tomorrow and they just refuse the idea of weaning.

When I place some KMR in a bowl they ignore it or walk through. If I dip their mount into it, they get mad a me.

Tried to give them canned food on a plastic spoon and put it in their mouth and they spit it out.

Question is now, should I keep on feeding them with the bottle or reducing the formula I give them? Or even leave them hungry? I am lost. Had bottle babies before, but never any problems weaning. And the whole thing is getting really expensive...

You dont have an adult cat they can look see and take their example from?    Otherwise you just proceed, leaving food on shallow plates.. Sooner or later they get the idea.  . It is enough if ONE begins, the others will soon follow the example.

As they dont have their mom to take the example from, its common bottle babies are a little later with weaning than kittens with moma, or a friendly adult cat nearby.

Gerber stage one baby food is what many american forumists use to bait them.  The chicken or turkey.

We foreigners use minced meat...   Canned wet should be OK too.

Good luck!

I read that rather than trying to put their mouth in it you dip your finger in and let them lick it then dip again and each time hold your finger nearer to the bowl so they lower their mouth nearer u til you just sort of dab your finger in the milk with their mouth really close so they're tempted. Also mashing up some kitten wet food with KMR and doing the same with that may work.

Ive done tons of bottle babies some have been easy weeners and others not so much. I start out by mixing some baby cat royal canin pate in formula to make a slurry on a flat plate. I usually get paper plates to save on have to do dishes. I put some on my finger and let them lick it off. Like the above poster said I will lower my finger to the plate to get them closer to it. I will start cutting out the bottle. They seem to really like the Royal canin food and I seem to ween them faster on that then any other wet food. I have 4 bottle kittens now. Not quite ready for weening just yet will prob be ready to begin the process in another week. I like to start when they are about 4 weeks almost 5 weeks.

Well, we had a surprise success yesterday. My hubby tried feeding them with little pieces of ham and at least the girl got it figured out and is very fond of ham now. LOL.

And yes, we have 4 friendly adult cats to learn from, but the kittens don´t seem to be interested in watching them eating.

Last year we had a bottle baby that was very special. When he was 4 weeks old he decided he was done with milk. No way he would take a single drop more. But he didn´t like the cat food either. Tried for several days all kind of food (and formula in a bowl) but he just seemed to be disgusted. I was seriously worried he would starve to death, when we had dinner and I tried a piece of chicken nugget. He went nuts! He chewed and gulped that chicken down, it was just amazing! Had a hard time swallowng, since he´d never had solid food before, but he was very determined and wouldn´t stop. For over a week he lived on Costco chicken nuggets because he refused anything else. I know, it´s not ideal, but it saved his life (he was a weak little guy who had almost died before, but somehow he pulled through). Well, after a week or so I could finally coax him into eating cat food. I heard from his adopter, that he still is a "finicky eather". 

Btw, he was my all time favorite foster kitten... (I just counted all my fosters and the number is 42 over 3 years).