Hi All, Our chocolate lab is 6 months old and we are looking to change her food from Burgess (which she was weaned on). We are keen to get her on to Skinners after much reading/research. As she is still 6 months, I was looking at their "junior" brand. Just wondering if anyone has experience of this and any words of wisdom for us? I am keen to make the transition as easy as poss for her but understand every lab is different. Thanks in advance. P.s. Haven't posted in a while so feel the need to show our Effie off a bit
She's so pretty! I used to use Skinners Duck and Rice and Riley looked very well on it and i think its decent quality at a reasonable price. He's an awfully picky eater though so I tried something else (which he didn't like much better anyway) I'm afraid I don't have any experience with the puppy food though.
What a lovely picture - feel free to show off some more, she's beautiful. Sorry, I have no puppy experience, but we do use Skinners Duck & Rice - it suits Coco, and my pocket and looks to be reasonable quality. The most important thing to me, is Coco likes it.
What a beautiful girl I use Skinners Salmon & Rice with my two and they look great on it and never complain! I don't know anything about the junior food, sorry. x
Many out of our gundog community here in Austria feed their dogs on skinners. Personally i think the price-perfomance ratio is quite good. We tried it for Odin too but didn't work out for us because he got terrible gas from it so we switched to a different brand. But as i said many of our gundog friends feed it to their dogs and as far as i know they are perfectly satisfied with it.
Years ago there was no such thing as puppy, junior, senior food, we just fed them on one food. I fed Skinners for years to my GSPs and would recommend that you use the Field and Trial range. Just introduce the new food gradually. You could phone Skinners for advice they are very helpful. My surname is Skinner, wish I owned the dog food company
The thing to look for in junior food is a low calcium level - this is what makes it suitable for larger breed puppies. And the correct ratio of calcium to phosphorus. Look for 1.5% calcium or less and about 0.8% to 1% phosphorus.
I am looking to change Milos food from Tails. He has lost a lot of weight and I'm not happy with the food for either maisie (who has also lost weight) or milo. despite telling tails that they are underweight etc they aren't adjusting their food amounts enough and they aren't putting on weight. Anyway I'm going to go back to skinners which Iv been happy with before. I want to limit the amount of food changes I need to do, Maisie is straightforward on to field and trial salmon and rice. But Im not sure whether to put Milo onto the field and trial puppy or straight to junior. It says on the skinners website that Junior is for dogs from 6 months but depending on breed. Milo is coming up 5 months. Does anyone know what they mean by depending on breed? Do you think I should just put him to Puppy?
They probably mean is it a large breed dog in which case @JulieT is spot on above and you should check what's in the food you're planning to give in terms of calcium and phosphorus. Personally I think labs grow in height for at least 9 months to a year and growth plates don't actually close until around 18 months. I kept both my dogs on puppy food for about a year.
My Lab was brought up on Skinner's foods, I was always very happy with it but changed food when I swapped to a supplier who doesn't sell it a couple years ago.
Saba would like Effie's address and phone number please. He's in love with your beautiful chocolate girl! I can't comment on Skinners either, and Saba is going through a picky phase just now. I wish you luck!
We had Benson on Bobandlush puppy food for about a year, he did very well on it. He was on Skinners for a while but lost a it of weight. Bramble is also on Bobandlush. She was on MilliesWolfheart for a few weeks until I checked the Ca ad phosphorus levels. Bramble is growing really quickly, so we switched her back to Bobandlush, with Calcium and Phosphorus @1%.
