Skinner's

Skinner's Field & Trial Muesli Mix review

Name: Skinner's Field & Trial Muesli Mix
Brand: Skinner's

31.7/100Average

DryAdult

An old-style working-dog muesli, cooked cereals with the animal content supplied as meal, and it lands in our Average band. Protein reads 21.0% as fed. A full vitamin and mineral panel makes it a complete food in its own right, and it has a settled following in kennels and on farms.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Country and working dogs whose owners want an unfussy cereal mix with no botanical tail
Dogs that have always eaten cereal foods happily
Fish-friendly dogs. Fish meal is the one animal entry that names its family
Adults of any size, with a feeding guide from the smallest to the biggest

Worth watching

Cooked wheat leads the list, a concern if a cereal food has ever unsettled your dog
Meat and bone meal names no animal, so it cannot serve as an elimination base
Glucose syrup sits fourth on the list

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

How this scores

How we score

31.7/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Skinner's guides 150 to 260 grams a day for a 15 kg dog; start there and let the waistline settle the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Skinner's Field & Trial Muesli Mix 31.7

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Most of the gap comes from wording: an unnamed meat meal, an unnamed fat and a sugar the recipe does not need.

What's in it

Cooked wheatBinds the mix well. Wheat comes up on intolerance lists more often than any other cereal.
Meat and bone mealA rendered meal that concentrates protein and carries calcium and phosphorus. The name covers any animal.
Cooked maize
Glucose syrupWorks on cooking, colour and taste. No dog needs added sugar.
Fish mealDried and ground, so amino acids and minerals pack into a small weight.
Oils and fatsNames neither the animal nor the plant.
Minerals and vitamins
Cooked peasA little fibre and plant protein.

Vitamins A, D3 and E dosed in print, with zinc leading the trace elements at 138mg per kilo, as oxides and sulphates.

Carbohydrate reaches 54.3% of dry matter against 46.2% for typical adult dry food.

Named ingredients

Cooked wheat, Meat & bone meal, Cooked maize, Glucose syrup, Fish meal, Oils & fats, Minerals & vitamins, Cooked peas

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

10%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

54.3%

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

32.7%

Carbs

58.1%

Oils

2.3%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size