Gelert Country Choice Maintenance Chicken and Rice – 12kg Dog Food

Gelert Country Choice Maintenance Chicken & Rice – 12kg

A 12kg bag of Gelert’s Country Choice Maintenance for working dogs, built on white rice at 30% and chicken meat meal at 20%. It runs to 23% protein and 10% fat at 340 kcal per 100g, which is a steady maintenance level rather than a high-octane racing ration — enough to hold condition through a season’s work without laying fat on a dog that has a quiet fortnight.

Gelert put glucosamine in at 175mg/kg and chondroitin at 125mg/kg, with prebiotic MOS, yucca extract at 500mg/kg and cranberry at 100mg/kg. Chicken fat at 5% and flaxseed oil at 1.5% carry most of the fat, and chicken digest at 1% is what makes an otherwise plain rice-based kibble worth eating.

Performance & Benefits

• 23% protein and 10% crude fat, at 340 kcal per 100g.
• White rice at 30% as the main carbohydrate, with maize and barley behind it.
• Chicken meat meal at 20% and dried maize protein at 15%.
• Glucosamine at 175mg/kg and chondroitin at 125mg/kg for joints.
• Prebiotic MOS, yucca extract at 500mg/kg and cranberry at 100mg/kg.
• 12kg bag; Gelert also make the recipe as 4 x 2kg.

Suitable For

• Adult working and sporting dogs in regular work.
• Dogs that hold weight easily and do not need a performance-level fat figure.
• Kennels wanting one maintenance food to run across a season.
• Dogs that suit chicken — Gelert Country Choice Maintenance White Fish and Rice is the recipe where poultry does not agree.

Feeding

• Feed as a complete food, split across two meals a day for most dogs.
• Set the quantity by bodyweight, condition and workload rather than by appetite.
• Gelert publish no feeding-rate chart on their website, so use the one printed on the bag.
• Introduce it across five to seven days, mixing an increasing share into the old food.
• Fresh drinking water at all times — a dry ration needs it more than a wet one.
• Reseal the bag between feeds and keep it dry so the fat does not go off.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: White Rice (30%), Chicken Meat Meal (20%), Maize, Dried Maize Protein (15%), Barley, Dried Brewer’s Yeast, Chicken Fat (5%), Flaxseed Oil (1.5%), Chicken Digest (1%), Minerals, Prebiotics MOS (Mannan-Oligosaccharide), Glucosamine (175mg/kg), Chondroitin (125mg/kg), Yucca Extract (500mg/kg), Cranberry (100mg/kg).
• Analytical constituents: protein 23.00%, crude fat 10.00%, crude fibre 2%, crude ash 5.00%. Energy 340 kcal/100g.
• Gelert publish no vitamin or trace element declaration for this recipe on their website, so none is stated here. Earlier copy on this page quoted vitamin A and D3 figures that Gelert do not publish, and they have been removed.
• Bag sizes: 12kg and 4 x 2kg.