Skinner’s Field & Trial Junior 15kg

Skinner's Field & Trial Junior – 15kg

Junior covers the awkward stretch from about six months to about eighteen, when a dog has stopped being a puppy but has not finished growing. Skinner's put poultry meat meal first at 32.5% — the largest meat inclusion in the Field & Trial dry range — and follow it with maize, wheat and brown rice.

It runs at 27% protein and 16% fat, 384 kcal per 100g, which is a good deal richer than any adult recipe and is meant to be. A 15kg bag lasts a growing large-breed dog a sensible length of time without going stale.

Performance & Benefits

• Poultry meat meal at 32.5%, a minimum 95% of it chicken.
• 27% crude protein and 16% crude fat, at 384 kcal per 100g, for continued growth and early work.
• MOS at 2,500mg/kg and FOS at 1,000mg/kg — five times the prebiotic level of the adult recipes.
• Glucosamine 250mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate 150mg/kg while the joints are still forming.
• Marine algae meal and whole linseed supply omega-3 at 0.94%.
• Herb blend at 750mg/kg.

Suitable For

• Dogs from around six months to around eighteen months, depending on breed and type.
• Young gundogs starting their first season's training.
• Larger breeds that stay in growth longer than a terrier does.
• Households with more than one young dog, where 15kg is used before it ages.
• Not part of Skinner's sensitive range — maize and wheat are both in it. A young dog with a cereal sensitivity wants Field & Trial Puppy Lamb & Rice, which covers the same age span.

Feeding

• Feed dry or moistened with tepid water, according to preference.
• 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.
• Two meals a day suits most dogs of this age better than one large one.
• Move on to an adult recipe at around eighteen months, matching the new food to the work the dog is doing.
• 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) 32.5%, maize, wheat, brown rice, poultry fat, naked oats, beet pulp, whole linseed, vitamins and minerals, marine algae meal.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 27%, crude fat 16%, crude fibre 2%, crude ash 7%, omega-3 0.94%.
• Energy content 384 kcal per 100g.
• Functional additives per kg: MOS 2,500mg, FOS 1,000mg, herb blend 750mg, glucosamine 250mg, chondroitin sulphate 150mg.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin A 13,000iu, vitamin D3 2,000iu, vitamin E 350mg, taurine 100mg, with iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium.
• Skinner's publish no free-from claim for Junior; it contains both wheat and maize.