Gelert Country Choice Maintenance White Fish and Rice – 12kg

Gelert Country Choice Maintenance White Fish & Rice – 12kg

The fish recipe in Gelert’s Maintenance line, built on white rice at 30% and fish meal at 20%, with fish oil at 7% doing most of the fat. It analyses at 22% protein, 9% fat and 314 kcal per 100g — the lowest energy of the three Maintenance recipes, and the one Gelert point to for dogs that do not get on with poultry or lamb.

Crude fibre is 5%, noticeably above the chicken and lamb recipes at 2%, which comes from the barley and oats sitting in the mix alongside the rice and maize. The joint and gut package is the same across the range: glucosamine at 175mg/kg, chondroitin at 125mg/kg, prebiotic MOS, yucca extract and cranberry.

Performance & Benefits

• 22% protein, 9% crude fat, 5% crude fibre and 314 kcal per 100g.
• Fish meal at 20% and fish oil at 7% — the only Maintenance recipe with no poultry or red meat protein in it.
• White rice at 30%, with maize, barley and oats behind it.
• Glucosamine at 175mg/kg and chondroitin at 125mg/kg.
• Prebiotic MOS, yucca extract at 500mg/kg and cranberry at 100mg/kg.
• 12kg bag; also made as 4 x 2kg.

Suitable For

• Adult working dogs on a maintenance ration.
• Dogs that react to chicken or lamb — Gelert name this as the recipe to try.
• Dogs that do better on a higher-fibre, lower-energy kibble.
• Working kennels wanting to avoid poultry across the board.
• Not a puppy food — Gelert publish it as working dog maintenance, and Country Choice Maintenance Puppy Chicken and Rice is the recipe for a growing dog.

Feeding

• Feed as a complete food, divided into two meals for most dogs.
• Set the quantity by bodyweight, condition and workload, not by appetite.
• Gelert publish no feeding chart on their website, so the one printed on the bag applies.
• Change over from another food across five to seven days.
• Keep fresh drinking water available at all times.
• Store the bag closed and dry — fish oil oxidises faster than animal fat once air gets at it.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: White Rice (30%), Fish Meal (20%), Maize, Barley, Dried Brewer’s Yeast, Oats, Fish Oil (7%), Flaxseed Oil (1.5%), Fish Digest (1%), Minerals, Prebiotics MOS (Mannan-Oligosaccharide), Glucosamine (175mg/kg), Chondroitin (125mg/kg), Yucca Extract (500mg/kg), Cranberry (100mg/kg).
• Analytical constituents: protein 22.00%, crude fat 9.00%, crude fibre 5%, crude ash 10.00%. Energy 314 kcal/100g.
• Gelert publish no vitamin or trace element declaration for this recipe, so none is stated here.
• Earlier copy on this page carried no ingredient list and described the food as being for puppies aged six to twelve months. Gelert publish it as a working dog maintenance food; the figures above are theirs.
• Bag sizes: 12kg and 4 x 2kg.