Thread: Moving on to adult food!

At what age do you move onto adult dry food??

Jiminy is nearly 1 year old now and most dry foods say to move on to adult at 12 months but I've read a few bits online saying that they keep coons on kitten until 18months old due to them taking so long to mature.

So I'm pretty unsure as to when to change him over, hes right lazy lump (he has mad half hours running up and down the stairs but snoozes most of the time!) so I really don't want him getting fat on kitten food, when I do change over it'll be to RC MC as I like the sound of the larger kibble, if he drops a bit of the kitten food on the floor he can't pick it back up as its too small for his big mouth!

Not sure there's a hard and fast rule on it, but I think many of us move them onto adult biscuits fairly early on. I moved Freyja onto adult when she was around 6 months old, and when Wicca moved in 3 months later I went back to kitten for a couple of months and then integrated adult gradually back into the biscuit dish. They both seemed to prefer the bigger adult stuff. More to crunch I guess!

Tango is eating the RC food now, much to Louie's disgust but they also have wet

I'm due to order some more food soon so I'll get him some of the mc biscuits, he has a pouch of wet food everyday as well as I don't like the idea of having to eat the same thing all day every day. Hes had 1 pouch of adult felix as good as it looks every day since we've had him, the breeder gave them adult as she said the kitten dry food was giving them all they needed to grow it was just more of a treat. I've tried loads of better food like the 70% meat ones but he turns his nose up at them and just licks off the gravy/jelly.

I kept Dexter on RC kitten 36 until he was 12 months. He is now on the RC main coon formula. He loves I.and makes less of a mess when eating.

We didn't pay much attention to kitten vs. adult food because the differences in nutrition are generally small to nonexistent. Kitten food seems a bit of a gimmick (other than the few foods intended for very young kittens). When we had puppies, on the other hand, there seemed to be quite significant differences between puppy and adult food. As long as you use a high quality, high protein adult food with meat as primary ingredients, I doubt there will be any issues. We certainly have not had any with multiple MCs.