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Congrats on your new additions. Honestly it sounds like you guys have your act together and are doing all the right things. I don't think there's really any right or wrong answers about when is the perfect time to open up more of the house to them, or transition them to a new food etc. For me, my criteria for letting them out of the room was:
1. That they were confident in their room, and confident with me
2. They showed interest in what was behind the closed door.
Once those two things happened, I would take them both out into another room a couple times a day, close them in (with me) and we'd play in the new room. Then back to their safe-room. After a few days of that I could see they were ready for the rest of the house. It sounds like you guys have a pretty good sized house. One thing I'd caution is that when you do let them run free, and they're still really tiny, you can lose track of them in a hurry! They'll be running around, then go silent for awhile, and you'll have no clue where they are. I had break-away collars for them with little bells on them when they were in that young and running around the house phase, and I was grateful for that, many times.
Similarly, I don't think there's necessarily a right or wrong answer for when to transition their food. It sounds like you have to sort out a digestion issue for at least one of your kittens, it's hard to tell whether giving them different (and better) food will make that problem worse or better. It may be something you have to just try.
As far as food recommendations, personally, I wouldn't freak out over the "kitten vs adult food" thing. Especially when it comes to wet food. I've read a lot of different opinions from vets, magazines, and other "experts", and I don't think there is anything close to a consensus that says that kittens should eat "kitten food". So either way is fine. The only thing I think you might have to watch out for is if you decide to go with a high quality dry food that isn't "for kittens", make sure that the pieces aren't too big for your kitten's mouths.
For what it's worth, I transitioned my bengals pretty early (maybe 3 or 4 weeks in) and for Neytiri, I just fed her what the bengals were eating from the first day she got here.
For dry food, I honestly don't even know what to recommend anymore. I used to feed mine Wellness for awhile, but they honestly hated that (all of their flavors). Then they were on Evo for awhile, but that company was bought up and went to hell. My cats even got really sick over one of their post-merger bags. Orijen is pretty good, but might be the worst thing you could feed a cat who is having tummy issues because they use a ton of different proteins in that. Earthborn Hollistic is good, on paper, but my cats won't eat it. And then there is Blue Buffalo, which I am stuck feeding them now because it's what they were used to and insist on now. That company had a big debacle where they were lying about the ingredients that they were listing on their bags (in the middle of an ad campaign where they were comparing their ingredients to others), and now this year they too got bought by a conglomerate food company that knows nothing about cat food. So all I can say is... good luck! Don't buy big bags until you find something they love, try lots of stuff (some stores will give you free samples), and if they like 2 or 3 different things that meet your nutritional approval, that could pay big dividends later.
For wet food though, there's lots of good brands. Mine like: weruva, tiki cat, earthborn holistic, rad cat (which is a packaged raw food) and other similar frozen raw packaged food.
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