Skinner's Field & Trial Maintenance Plus Working Dog Food 2.5kg

Skinner's Field & Trial Maintenance Plus – 2.5kg

The 2.5kg bag is the way to see whether a dog does better with Joint Aid in its food than out of it, without buying a sack to find out. The recipe is Skinner's plain Maintenance — maize, wheat, poultry meat meal and barley at 18% protein and 11% fat — with the Joint Aid for Dogs supplement added.

Only two Field & Trial foods are made this way, this one and Turkey & Rice, so the choice between them is really a choice between a cereal-based ration and a rice-based one. This is the cereal-based option.

Performance & Benefits

• Joint Aid for Dogs included in the food itself.
• 18% crude protein and 11% crude fat for low to moderate activity.
• Maize, wheat and barley base for steady energy without excess protein.
• Crude fibre 2.6% and crude ash 5.6%.
• Vitamin A at 17,500iu/kg with vitamin D3 at 2,000iu/kg and vitamin E at 200mg/kg.
• 2.5kg is around a fortnight for a medium dog — enough to judge the change.

Suitable For

• Older adult dogs at a low to moderate activity level.
• Working dogs resting between seasons.
• Trying a joint-supplemented food before committing to a 15kg sack.
• Dogs already on a separate glucosamine supplement that could be replaced.
• Not for a cereal-sensitive dog — Field & Trial Turkey & Rice 2.5kg is the other Joint Aid recipe and is made without wheat, maize or barley.

Feeding

• Feed dry or moistened with a small quantity of tepid water.
• 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.
• Stop any separate joint supplement, or check with your vet first — the Joint Aid is already in this food.
• Allow six to eight weeks on it before judging whether stiffness has improved.
• 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: maize, wheat, poultry meat meal, barley, poultry fat, beet pulp, vitamins and minerals, Joint Aid supplement.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 18%, crude fat 11%, crude fibre 2.6%, crude ash 5.6%.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin A 17,500iu, vitamin D3 2,000iu, vitamin E 200mg.
• Trace elements per kg: iron 10mg, iodine 1.5mg, copper 7mg, manganese 50mg, zinc 90mg, selenium 0.1mg.
• Skinner's publish no energy figure for Maintenance Plus, so none is stated here.
• 2.5kg bag; the same recipe is made in 15kg.