Skinner's

Skinner's Field & Trial Grain Free: Salmon review

Name: Skinner's Field & Trial Grain Free: Salmon
Brand: Skinner's

59.1/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's working kibble with the cereal lifted out, and both bags sit in our Good band. Sweet potato chips do the binding the rice used to do. The tail of joint and gut extras is dosed in milligrams, which few labels bother with.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-free households, with no wheat, maize, rice, oat or barley on either list
Active and working dogs, on the brand's energy-first field recipes
Quantified joint support: glucosamine 350mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate 150mg/kg
Dogs doing better away from bird, on the Salmon
Prebiotics in the food itself, MOS and FOS at 500mg/kg apiece

Worth watching

Poultry fat beside the poultry meal, so the Original is bird throughout
Pea protein in the Salmon, so some of its protein is plant
No moisture figure on the Original, so its dry-matter numbers assume 8%

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

59.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Skinner's chart runs from 150 grams to 260 grams at 20kg and assumes a working dog, so a quieter one needs less.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 59.1
Original 51.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Both land on the commonest result for adult dry food, and the Salmon edges ahead on our scoring despite its smaller meat share.

What's in it

Salmon meat meal26.5%The only animal protein in the bag.
Sweet potato chips26%
Potato flake
Vegetable oilIn place of poultry fat; no plant named.
Peas, whole linseed, brewer's yeast, beet pulp
Vitamins and minerals, pea proteinPea protein means the 25.0% protein is not all from the fish.
Herb blend750mg/kgNo herbs named, and nutritionally it changes nothing at that level.
MOS, FOS500mg/kg eachPrebiotics, dosed.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate350 and 150mg/kg
Seaweed, yucca150 and 100mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E with taurine at 100mg/kg, and each trace mineral in two forms, an oxide or sulphate beside a chelate, plus organic selenium.

Named ingredients

Salmon meat meal 26.5%, Sweet potato chips 26%, Potato flake, Vegetable oil, Peas, Whole linseed, Brewer's yeast, Beet pulp, Vitamins & minerals, Pea protein, Herb blend 750mg/kg, MOS 500mg/kg, FOS 500mg/kg, Glucosamine 350mg/kg, Chondroitin sulphate 150mg/kg, Seaweed 150mg/kg, Yucca 100mg/kg

Against the range

Meat: Salmon meat meal 26.5%; Poultry meat meal 30% on the Original.
Plant protein: Pea protein added; Not on the Original.
Moisture: Declared at 9.0%; Undeclared on the Original.

The one to reach for when a dog does better away from bird, and the stronger of the two on our scoring.

Both bags take the cereal out of the brand's working ration and put sweet potato chips and potato flake in its place. A meat meal opens each list: poultry, declared as at least 95% chicken, on the Original and salmon on the other.

Peas, whole linseed, brewer's yeast and beet pulp sit in both. So does the same dosed tail of prebiotics, joint support, seaweed and yucca. The Salmon swaps poultry fat for vegetable oil and adds pea protein.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

341.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

14.3%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

45%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

26.5%

Carbs

60%

Oils

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size