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Ok so i have noticed lots of people say its a good choice i am about to look for New food as pup is soon to be an adult!
However looking at there book and ingredients apart from the puppy and crunchie the others all start with wheat as first ingredient- surely from what everyone says about meat being key then skinners shouldn't actually be a good food?
Please explain Im confused and would like to use it but not if its full of filler!
 
Look at the Field & Trial products, the Duck and Rice, Salmon & Rice and Turkey and Rice are all wheat free. Whilst the rice is still the first ingredient the food suits a lot of dogs (mine included) and is a realistic price.
 
As MurphysMinder says you need to look at the Field & Trial range.

Please note that a lot of foods with meat as the first ingredient do this by splitting the cereals & fillers so the meat appears first in the ingredients list.

For example ( no brand named ;o) )-
Dried Chicken And Turkey (28%), Maize, Wheat, Animal Fat, Dried Beet Pulp (3.1%), Sorghum, Barley, Hydrolysed Animal Proteins, Dried Whole Egg, Brewer'S Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Fructooligosaccharides (0.15%), Linseed.
This is a food that declares 15% fat content so Maize & wheat must be higher than 15% each.

Skinners F&T suits a lot of dogs.
 
I think with these sorts of foods, it's a case of them being good for the price. You're not going to get a very high meat-content kibble for the price of Skinners, but if you are on a budget (like many of us are) it can be a better quality and better value food than many of the supposedly cheaper alternatives (bear in mind value as well as cost - Bakers may be half the price but if you need to feed 3 times as much it's not actually cheaper in the long run). Skinners, CSK, Autarky, etc. aren't top of the range foods but they aren't bad for the price range they're in.

I actually found it costs just the same to raw feed as it does to feed mine CSJ Lamb & rice so made the switch. But again, there's a compromise between price/budget and quality - I do not deny that the meat I get is unlikely to be freerange, organic, corn-fed chicken and grass-fed beef etc. - it's the leftovers from the cheap meats used for supermarket's cheaper ranges or budget stuff from butchers. I'm not naive enough to think it's top of the range meat, but in my eyes, it's better than buying a medium-budget dry food that will use probably the same quality meat, but also then pump it full of filler ingredients and charge me the same amount. I'd rather skip out the fillers, thank you very much!

If I could afford top of the range meat, I'd feed it, but we have to be somewhat realistic. I feed the best I can, with the budget I have, and that's good enough for me.
 
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I fed my 3 on Skinners for the last couple of years but have just switched back to James Wellbeloved. The reason for this is that a bag of salmon and rice Skinners was costing me £26 and I've been able to source JWB online for £38 which is really cheap. I feel it's worth paying an extra £12 as it's a better food. However, if the price of JWB sky rockets (usually around £50 per bag) they will be going back on Skinners!
 
Thanks all thats good to mo. He is fed a good food at mo but the adult food salmon and rice is going to be over 35 for a bag. Need to work out the amount of each i will need to feed to see if which is most cost effective
 
I have just bought another bag of Skinners duck and rice. It cost me £20.99 for the bag that will feed both my springers and last about 3 weeks. So £7 a week to feed two dogs is pretty good value! I do tend to alternate between duck and salmon to give them a bit of variety! Both sorts suit my dogs especially my youngest who has quite a sensitive tummy.
I do also think JWB is very good but while my dogs look and act so fit on Skinners we shall stick to it.
 
I buy mine locally from the same place i get my horse feed. The salmon and rice is a little bit more expensive - about £24.99
 
Autarky do a deal on their salmon flavour - 2 bags for £38 I think, with free postage so could work out a bit cheaper than Skinners, depending on amount needed
 
My adult dogs are on the duck and rice one and do very well on it - I did try raw for a few months but it was far more expensive and they lost weight on it even though I was feeding 4 times what they have with dry and they were always hungry, not to mention having 20kg+ of raw meat defrosting for just one days feed was not very practical!!! So now they just get the odd bit of raw every week instead, along with any road kill we find or spare cockrels I breed in summer.
Pups though I've always fed either arden grange or James wellbeloved until they have finished growing just because they are a better quality of food when they need it the most.
 
FestiveBoomBoom said:
I fed my 3 on Skinners for the last couple of years but have just switched back to James Wellbeloved. The reason for this is that a bag of salmon and rice Skinners was costing me £26 and I've been able to source JWB online for £38 which is really cheap. I feel it's worth paying an extra £12 as it's a better food. However, if the price of JWB sky rockets (usually around £50 per bag) they will be going back on Skinners!
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Can I ask where you get the JWB for £38. I paid £52 last month and all three of mine are on it so a saving would be great.
 
BBH said:
Can I ask where you get the JWB for £38. I paid £52 last month and all three of mine are on it so a saving would be great.
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I got it from an online store, GW Titmus I think they're called. They were doing a deal and it included delivery hopefully it will still be on!
 
I also feed the duck and rice at £16.99 a 15kg bag:p
I also use arden grange lamb and rice £24.99 a 15kg bag
And have found my provider now stock the vitalin sensitive which I think is lamb too £19.00 a 15kg bag

I have to say I prefer using the Arden grange.

Im using all 3 depending on what on offer or stock.
 
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