Skinner's Field & Trial Puppy Chicken Complete Puppy Food 2.5kg

Skinner's Field & Trial Puppy Chicken – 2.5kg

A 2.5kg bag is the right size for one puppy: rich food goes stale faster than plain kibble, and a single pup will get through this in two or three weeks. The recipe is Skinner's chicken puppy food, built on poultry meat meal at 30% with dried egg, brewer's yeast and marine algae meal.

Skinner's describe it as a wheat gluten-free recipe and rate it from weaning to about six months, and for bitches in whelp and in milk. At 27% protein and 18% fat it is the densest food in the Field & Trial dry range, so portions are smaller than the volume suggests.

Performance & Benefits

• Poultry meat meal at 30%, minimum 95% chicken.
• 27% crude protein with 18% crude fat, at 386 kcal per 100g.
• MOS 2,500mg/kg and FOS 1,000mg/kg supporting gut flora through weaning.
• Dried egg and brewer's yeast for digestibility in a young gut.
• Glucosamine 250mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate 150mg/kg, seaweed and yucca.
• A wheat gluten-free recipe, with omega-3 at 0.91%.

Suitable For

• Puppies from weaning to approximately six months.
• Bitches in whelp and lactating bitches.
• One-puppy households — 2.5kg is used while it is still fresh.
• Move on to Field & Trial Junior 2.5kg at around six months.
• Wheat gluten-free is not maize-free; maize is in it. A puppy reacting to maize wants Field & Trial Puppy Lamb & Rice 2.5kg.

Feeding

• Four small meals a day at weaning, reducing to three and then two.
• Skinner's publish their daily amounts as a bodyweight chart rather than a single figure, so work from the guide printed on the bag and adjust to condition.
• Moisten with tepid water for a very young puppy, reducing the water as the adult teeth come in.
• Weigh the daily ration. At 386 kcal per 100g, over-feeding a large-breed puppy pushes growth faster than the skeleton should take, so feed to body condition rather than to appetite.
• Change over gradually, mixing an increasing share of the new food with the old across several days.
• Fresh drinking water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: poultry meat meal (min. 95% chicken) 30%, maize, brown rice, poultry fat, naked oats, prairie meal, beet pulp, sunflower meal, whole linseed, dried egg, vitamins and minerals, brewer's yeast, cellulose, marine algae meal.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 27%, crude fat 18%, crude fibre 3%, crude ash 7%, omega-3 0.91%.
• Energy content 386 kcal per 100g.
• Functional additives per kg: MOS 2,500mg, FOS 1,000mg, herb blend 750mg, glucosamine 250mg, chondroitin sulphate 150mg, seaweed 150mg, yucca 100mg.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin A 13,000iu, vitamin D3 2,000iu, vitamin E 350mg, taurine 100mg.
• Skinner's claim only that the recipe is wheat gluten-free. 2.5kg bag; also made in 15kg.