Skinners Field & Trial Duck Puppy & Junior Dry Dog Food - 15kg

Skinner's Field & Trial Puppy & Junior Duck & Rice – 15kg

A growth food for puppies and young working dogs, covering weaning to around 18 months depending on breed. Duck meat meal sits at 28.1% and brown rice at 28%, with no wheat, maize or barley.

The 15kg sack is the litter-and-kennel size — worth buying where several pups are being reared together, or where a large-breed junior is eating steadily through its first year.

Performance & Benefits

• Crude protein 27% and crude oils and fats 18%, at 388 kcal per 100g, to carry a puppy through growth.
• Duck meat meal 28.1% — a single, less common meat, useful where chicken has not suited.
• Marine algae meal contributes to omega-3 at 1.65%, which supports brain and eye development.
• Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, MOS, FOS, seaweed and yucca are all declared in the composition.
• Dicalcium phosphate alongside the vitamin and mineral premix for skeletal development.
• Triangular kibble, sized to suit both puppies and juniors.

Suitable For

• Puppies from weaning to roughly 18 months, depending on breed and type.
• Puppies and young dogs sensitive to wheat, maize or barley.
• Bitches in whelp and through lactation.
• Litters and multi-dog households — which is what a 15kg sack is for.
• Dogs past growth should move to an adult food; Skinner's Field & Trial Duck & Rice is the same protein in an adult formulation.

Feeding

• Feed dry, or moisten a few minutes before serving with a little tepid water.
• Split the daily amount across three or four meals for a young puppy, dropping to two as it grows.
• Skinner's publish their daily amounts on the pack and through an interactive feeding guide on their own website rather than as a printed table, so none are quoted here.
• Introduce gradually over about a week when changing foods.
• Fresh drinking water available at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: duck meat meal 28.1%, brown rice 28%, naked oats, peas, poultry fat, whole linseed, beet pulp, vitamins and minerals, brewer's yeast, dicalcium phosphate, cellulose, marine algae meal, with MOS, FOS, herb blend, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, seaweed and yucca.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 27%, crude oils and fats 18%, crude fibres 3%, crude ash 6.5%, omega-3 1.65%.
• Energy content (ME) 388 kcal per 100g.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin A 13,000 IU, vitamin D3 2,000 IU, vitamin E 350mg, taurine 100mg, plus iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium.
• Figures elsewhere of 25% protein and 11% fat belong to the adult Duck & Rice, not to this puppy and junior recipe.

Care & Caution

• This is a growth diet at 18% fat and 388 kcal per 100g. Keeping a large-breed puppy lean matters — over-feeding a fast-growing pup loads joints that are still developing.
• Move on to an adult food at maturity rather than continuing on a puppy ration.