Skinner's

Skinner's Field & Trial Maintenance Plus review

Name: Skinner's Field & Trial Maintenance Plus
Brand: Skinner's

32.9/100Average

DryAdult

A short kennel recipe in our Average band, with a joint aid supplement written into it. Maize and wheat carry the bowl and poultry meat meal is the animal side. For a steady older working dog on familiar food, it does the job.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working dogs whose joints have started to feel the years
Kennels feeding one simple ration to several dogs
Dogs that eat cereal without complaint
A composition you can read start to finish in a few seconds
A dog already settled on the brand's plainer maintenance food

Worth watching

The joint aid supplement has no breakdown, so no glucosamine or chondroitin amounts
Wheat second on the list
Poultry meat meal and poultry fat name no bird
Protein at 18.0% suits a dog ticking over, less so one working hard through a season

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

How this scores

How we score

32.9/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The bag's feeding table is written around a dog in work, so a quieter dog may need less than it suggests.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Skinner's Field & Trial Maintenance Plus 32.9

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The score describes the food more than it warns against it: a cereal-led kennel ration with a modest, unnamed animal share.

What's in it

MaizeMost of the energy, and a cereal most dogs digest easily.
WheatA binder, and the grain that turns up most often in intolerance stories.
Poultry meat mealRendered and dried, so third place understates its protein. No bird named.
Barley
Poultry fatNo species either.
Beet pulpFibre, with the barley.
Vitamins and minerals
Joint aid supplementThe reason this bag exists. One line, no breakdown, no doses.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with trace elements as plain salts and oxides, zinc as the oxide and selenium as sodium selenite.

The joint aid's contents and doses are not on the label. Judge it on how your dog moves after a few months.

Named ingredients

Maize, Wheat, Poultry meat meal, Barley, Poultry fat, Beet pulp, Vitamins & minerals, Joint aid supplement

Against the range

Eight entries, two of them cereals at the top. Maize and wheat lead, poultry meat meal is the only animal protein, and barley, poultry fat and beet pulp follow. The last line, a joint aid supplement, is what sets this bag apart from the brand's plainer maintenance food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

348.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

5.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

19.6%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

6.1%

Carbs

59.5%

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

16.2%

Carbs

78%

Oils

3.4%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size