Dog feeding / nutrition experts - Gelert?

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Hi all,

I was hoping to pick the brains of those much more knowledgable than me on this subject please :)

Has anyone come across Gelert Natural Choice? I was just hoping for any thoughts on it - I've searched this and the dog food analysis sites, but can't find any more info than on their own website.

It is marketed as hypo-allergenic (no wheat gluten, colours etc) and a 'premuim nutrition' brand. Tesco are stocking the dry feed at just over £3 for 2kg, which seems cheap to me.

The ingredients listed on the 2kg bag:

Rice (min. 25%)
Chicken meal (min. 20%)
maize
barley
chicken oil
beet pulp
dried brewers yeast
whole linseed
seaweed
vitamins & minerals
Mannan-oligosaccharide (MOS)
glucosamine & chrondroitin
EC approved anti-oxidants - tocopheral rich extracts of natural origin (Vitamin E).

Does anyone know what MOS is? Or is there anything else in this list you'd be avoiding?

I am looking for our collie, who was a rescue, with a rather delicate tummy & prone to very itchy skin. She can also get rather stiff, which is why the chrondroitin/glucosamine appealed (although it doesn't specify the level, so may well be neglible in reality).

I have fed brewer's yeast/linseed/seaweed to horses in the past and have been pleased with the results, but again the levels are not specified on the bag.

Basically, I am looking for a feed with minimum potential to irritate her skin/stomach, and at the best value possible.

Any thoughts would be very appreciated :)
 
A lot of dogs are intolerant of maize & barley.

There are far better foods available more cheaply.

Skinners field & trial duck & rice or salmon & rice are the cheapest reliably good foods. Fish4dogs is better but dearer. Wainwright's is ok if your dog tolerates chicken. Arden Grange suits some dogs.
 
Or you could feed Orijen which is 75% premium animal ingreds. 25% fruits,veg & botanicals O% grain.

We are feeding our 7month pup on this and although its very expensive is a really good preservative free food.
 
What Sugar said, Skinners and Wainwrights if on a budget (Wainwrights also do a salmon and potato range or turkey and rice) and Arden Grange or Fish 4 Dogs if not.
Origen if money is no object :p :p :p
 
Thank you all, much appreciated :)

I'm looking at all the options suggested now, think we'll probably try the Skinners first. Orijen looks like fabulous stuff, sadly a little too £££ for us at the moment, I think!

ETA - looking at the ingredients list for the Skinners Field & Trial Salmon & Rice, for example, the ingredients don't look too different from the Gelert (for example), to me at least? It still contains 40% rice and beet pulp, for example.

I don't mean to be a pain - I'm just genuinely trying to understand it all, they don't make it easy, do they? :o Can I ask what makes the Skinners a preferred feed, for example?

Thanks again!
 
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http://www.petforums.co.uk/dog-health-nutrition/189896-dry-dog-food-index.html

This ^^ explains why and gives rating. Also use the dogfoodanalysis website to see reviews, although it's unlikely a brand new food will be on there.

EC approved antioxidants makes me worry: there are EC approved additives/preservatives in some dog food from supermarkets that are carcinogenic.

As I said on another thread, I wouldn't touch anything as a main food except Orijen, maybe Acana, because the ingredients are guaranteed natural.
 
I wouldn't feed anything that wasn't meat as it's 1st ingredient...

Have you looked at fish4dogs? It is min 55% fish and no grains (which is often what causes itchiness)

RRP is £55 a bag which lasts my GSP 6/7 weeks but if you serach around you can get it for £36 ish.
 
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