i just use catfood(for older kats that is cause its less salt) rince off any juice thats on it...its only fattinging
...ad a bit of calcium and repvitamin to it, and make a nice creamy easy for tubing "fooditem" of it...
I do this when the hatchling hasnt eaten for a while (somewhere between 4/6 weeks after the first shed)
and imho its just to get the hatchling to get hungry, they just have to get the nice feeling of having food in their stomach, and after e few of these feedings they usually use to start feeding on their own.
i honestly think this is because they dont connect mice to forcefeeding, i have also tried to push mice down, but then it takes them months to start feeding on their own, tubing is really better imho
mariska