Skinners Dog Food Amazon

Lemlin

Hi folks,

Could somebody please post the link for ordering Skinners Dog Food off Amazon?

I remember it came recommended as a great food for the price on here before.

I generally feed GRAW or Beta but I have a litter of pups that I want to start on Skinners when they're ready for nuts.

boomerang

Don't have the Amazon link but I get mine from www.vetuk.co.uk - would usually be about €11 delivery for two 15kg bags and I get other bits and bobs with my order as well.

http://www.vetuk.co.uk/skinners-skinners-field-and-trial-c-1024_420_1283

Blue Whale

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=skinners%20dog%20food&sprefix=skinner%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Askinners%20dog%20food

I usually get the dogs the Duck one. They seem to like it.

If you want free delivery you need to spend £25 or more (either buy the Salmon one - or order something else directly from amazon to get the free postage)

angeldaisy

I get the 15kg bag of skinners delivered each month on the subscribe and save. I dont pay any postage and it works out at around 20euro for the one I get.

Look at the subscribe and save section on amazon for skinners.

Lemlin

angeldaisy wrote: »

I get the 15kg bag of skinners delivered each month on the subscribe and save. I dont pay any postage and it works out at around 20euro for the one I get.

Look at the subscribe and save section on amazon for skinners.

Tbh I wouldn't need a bag a month. I usually feed GRAW and rarely have nuts.

These are just for the pups. I got a bag of Beta puppy for the mother pre delivery but want to try the pups on Skinners.

I've read good things about it here.

angeldaisy

Lemlin wrote: »

Tbh I wouldn't need a bag a month. I usually feed GRAW and rarely have nuts.

These are just for the pups. I got a bag of Beta puppy for the mother pre delivery but want to try the pups on Skinners.

I've read good things about it here.

You dont have to get a delivery each month. You get an email about a week before they despatch it to remind you and if you dont want it you just cancel the delivery.

Lemlin

angeldaisy wrote: »

You dont have to get a delivery each month. You get an email about a week before they despatch it to remind you and if you dont want it you just cancel the delivery.

They just tried to charge me about £15 for delivery. Will subscribe and save get me out of that?

tk123

Lemlin wrote: »

They just tried to charge me about £15 for delivery. Will subscribe and save get me out of that?

Are you getting the option for free super saver delivery? If you're spending over £25 from amazon or a fulfilled by amazon seller you should get it BUT I was buying stuff a few weeks ago and it wasn't offering like it should. I mailed them and they told me to order and they'd refund the shipping - their customer service is really good.

angeldaisy

I know I dont pay postage at all, but can't check for you as I'm on my phone!

I think i made sure to select amazon as the seller

Lemlin

I just clicked on delivery options and it let me pick free super saver.

eisenberg1

Lemlin wrote: »

Hi folks,

Could somebody please post the link for ordering Skinners Dog Food off Amazon?

I remember it came recommended as a great food for the price on here before.

I generally feed GRAW or Beta but I have a litter of pups that I want to start on Skinners when they're ready for nuts.

PetBliss in Wicklow sell this from about 30euro/15kg [EMAIL="up....info@petbliss.com"]up....info@petbliss.com[/EMAIL] I think. I tried my dogs on it as a kind of cheaper option to some brands ...didn't notice any big difference, gonna give Eden a shot.

greengold9999

If you do not need it every month, subscribe and save on amazon allows you to choose a longer interval than once a month - up to once every six months

Lemlin

eisenberg1 wrote: »

PetBliss in Wicklow sell this from about 30euro/15kg [EMAIL="up....info@petbliss.com"]up....info@petbliss.com[/EMAIL] I think. I tried my dogs on it as a kind of cheaper option to some brands ...didn't notice any big difference, gonna give Eden a shot.

Am I right in reading this as you didn't notice any difference when compared to more expensive brands?

So therefore you found it a good cheaper alternative?

eisenberg1

Lemlin wrote: »

Am I right in reading this as you didn't notice any difference when compared to more expensive brands?

So therefore you found it a good cheaper alternative?

Yes I found it to be fine,

boomerang

Me too.

Lemlin

Just wondering what type of Skinners do people buy?

There's a good few different variations. I have the pups on Field & Trial Puppy but what do people buy for their adult dogs?

greengold9999

Duck and Rice - it is gluten free. I supplement with fish and veg and fish oil

aonb

feedyourpet.ie has SKinners - they have free delivery over E40....

boomerang

The Duck and Rice, Salmon and Rice or the Turkey and Rice.

mosi

aonb wrote: »

feedyourpet.ie has SKinners - they have free delivery over E40....

Just clicked on the 15kg Duck and Rice...€39.50 which is a good bit more expensive than buying through Amazon

carav10

Lemlin wrote: »

Just wondering what type of Skinners do people buy?

There's a good few different variations. I have the pups on Field & Trial Puppy but what do people buy for their adult dogs?

Field & Trial Maintenance. Both on it now and they're in great form & condition & poops both good.
€19 approx a bag every two months delivered to my door by Amazon.
As pups, both started on the puppy, then to crunchy & finally to maintenance.
I never got why people continue to pay out silly prices of 50-65 when a perfectly good alternative is available (exceptions of course for funny tummies). Similar contents etc. Have a friend who I call a food snob (lovingly obviously!), she's one of these that believes if it's expensive then it must be good, and if it's cheap it must be bad, it's an irish thing I think :-) (caveat here, yes there are cheap baaad foods, but there are cheap good foods too!)

Reason the F&T is so cheap is because it's a working dog food which I believe is VAT free in the UK. Even their anti-allergy is reasonably priced, know someone who moved their dogs to that one and it's been great.

glic83

what would be the main differences between the working dog version and regular versions?

boomerang

Funnily enough, in the main, the working dog version (Field and Trial) seems to have better quality ingredients than their regular varieties. I don't think the ingredients or the recipes are to support working gundogs specifically, but simply by marketing them as foods for working dogs, they can be sold VAT free, which is attractive to people that work their dogs.

Not all Skinners' products are equivalent in quality to the likes of Burns, Arden Grange etc. but the Duck and Rice, Turkey and Rice and Salmon and Rice are. I steer clear of the cheaper Skinners products, e.g. Ruff and Ready.

Lemlin

Just a note to anyone who feeds Skinners and is ever near Newry or Enniskillen, Jollyes are selling it for £26.49 for 15kg.

They have limited stock though. Only had 3 bags in Enniskillen Saturday and didn't have the puppy type. Just had two different types of the Field and Trial.

boomerang

I considered the Puppy Field and Trial for our new dog. Not the same quality as the adult Field and Trial duck/turkey/salmon range at all. Too many cereals and the meat protein not specified. Very disappointing. He's on Burns Original Puppy instead.

Lemlin

boomerang wrote: »

I considered the Puppy Field and Trial for our new dog. Not the same quality as the adult Field and Trial duck/turkey/salmon range at all. Too many cereals and the meat protein not specified. Very disappointing. He's on Burns Original Puppy instead.

I hadn't realised that. I'm not very good at analysing the ingredients but it got a decent review online on whichdogfood and got decent feedback on another site I visit.

I might move back to Taste of the Wild for my pup so but my hope is to keep her on 100% Raw. I'm using nuts sparingly at the minute with her and her mother.

Our rehomed dog will have to stay on them now though. She's twelve so is reaching the end of the lifespan for a Norwegian Elkhound and we only got her two years ago so I feel its far too late now to move her completely onto raw with her digestive system used to ten years of nuts.

aonb

Is there any supplier of EDEN in the Kildare/S.Dublin area? I just want to buy a small bag to try it with my fussy/sensitive older dog?

Also, I was at an expo last weekend, got talking to a dog food rep who seemed to be very knowledgable - he said at one stage that moistening dry dog food (kibble) is NOT a good idea - that it changes the make up (protein?) of the food and make it harder to digest - any comments on this (I moisten kibble for said older dog) and thought it was ok to do - intensifying the flavour and making bigger kibble easier to chew etc

Lemlin

Just a quick note to say that Skinners Field & Trial Superior is reduced to £22.61 on Amazon at the minute. That's a reduction of £6.14.

Millem

What is going on with the price of skinners on amazon!!! It keeps creeping up!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skinners-Field-Trial-Duck-Rice/dp/B003EGMHL2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386081132&sr=8-1&keywords=Skinners"]

meoklmrk91

Millem wrote: »

What is going on with the price of skinners on amazon!!! It keeps creeping up!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skinners-Field-Trial-Duck-Rice/dp/B003EGMHL2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386081132&sr=8-1&keywords=Skinners"]

Noticed this myself. It stayed around the same price for over a year. Very annoying.

Millem

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Noticed this myself. It stayed around the same price for over a year. Very annoying.

It is very annoying! I am subscribing to 5 things on amazon so am saving 15% but still and all. I am stock piling it at the mo have two bags unopened and due another two 27th dec. I checked my dec order but am getting charged lower price. I don't really know how it works!!

meoklmrk91

Millem wrote: »

It is very annoying! I am subscribing to 5 things on amazon so am saving 15% but still and all. I am stock piling it at the mo have two bags unopened and due another two 27th dec. I checked my dec order but am getting charged lower price. I don't really know how it works!!

I got charges £20.40 for my November order, for my dec order I am being charged £23.70. I really hope it doesn't get anymore expensive, I really can't afford a hike in the food bill and will have to look at changing after over a year!

Millem

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

I got charges £20.40 for my November order, for my dec order I am being charged £23.70. I really hope it doesn't get anymore expensive, I really can't afford a hike in the food bill and will have to look at changing after over a year!

I paid £18.36 for oct and nov order. Now I only had subscribed to two things so didn't get 15% discount. Dec order getting charged £22.44 and that's with 15% discount. I think the way it works is it automatically buys 1 month in advance so you buy at that price? Hopefully it will go back down in price before next order! In fairness though it is still cheaper than even supermarket brands. I think a lot of dog food has gone up in price

meoklmrk91

Millem wrote: »

I paid £18.36 for oct and nov order. Now I only had subscribed to two things so didn't get 15% discount. Dec order getting charged £22.44 and that's with 15% discount. I think the way it works is it automatically buys 1 month in advance so you buy at that price? Hopefully it will go back down in price before next order! In fairness though it is still cheaper than even supermarket brands. I think a lot of dog food has gone up in price

It is very cheap to be fair considering the quality but I just can't afford a serious price hike, if it doesn't drop I might have to switch to one of the lesser quality bags of skinners which I really don't want to do.

Millem

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

It is very cheap to be fair considering the quality but I just can't afford a serious price hike, if it doesn't drop I might have to switch to one of the lesser quality bags of skinners which I really don't want to do.

I know what your saying. The only thing I will say is once we ran out of food and were waiting for our delivery and my OH bought a small bag of bakers in the shop. Two of the dogs were grand but one of them starting needing to pee constantly and her pee was green!! I ended up taking her to the vet and vet tested pee and said there was something wrong with protein levels in pee!! As soon as her burns arrived she was back to normal! She has not had any problems on the skinners so far! Also they pooed loads on the bakers and it was only for a few days!! Now if I ever run out of food I just cook them something like mince, veg and pasta it is probably just as cheap as skinners (if you go to aldi/lidl) but just a pain to have to prepare!!
You could try something like champion active. I am sure he would give you a deal if you were buying two bags
http://www.dogfooddirect.ie/modules/shop/cats/champion-/[url][/url]

meoklmrk91

Millem wrote: »

I know what your saying. The only thing I will say is once we ran out of food and were waiting for our delivery and my OH bought a small bag of bakers in the shop. Two of the dogs were grand but one of them starting needing to pee constantly and her pee was green!! I ended up taking her to the vet and vet tested pee and said there was something wrong with protein levels in pee!! As soon as her burns arrived she was back to normal! She has not had any problems on the skinners so far! Also they pooed loads on the bakers and it was only for a few days!! Now if I ever run out of food I just cook them something like mince, veg and pasta it is probably just as cheap as skinners (if you go to aldi/lidl) but just a pain to have to prepare!!
You could try something like champion active. I am sure he would give you a deal if you were buying two bags
http://www.dogfooddirect.ie/modules/shop/cats/champion-/[url][/url]

Well definitely won't be going to Bakers or its ilk anyway, apart from it costing me an arm and a leg, I don't even want to imagine how many mgs I would have to give him to keep him going, I couldnt give him that crap, it is such poor quality. Will stick the the Skinners until after Xmas anyway and see how we go with pricing, it really was the best of both worlds, so reasonably price and decent quality too.

Millem

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Well definitely won't be going to Bakers or its ilk anyway, apart from it costing me an arm and a leg, I don't even want to imagine how many mgs I would have to give him to keep him going, I couldnt give him that crap, it is such poor quality. Will stick the the Skinners until after Xmas anyway and see how we go with pricing, it really was the best of both worlds, so reasonably price and decent quality too.

I agree great price for quality. With a bit of luck it might go down. If you find it cheaper elsewhere in the future please share

tk123

Maybe mail amazon and ask them why it's gone up? They sent me a 'goodwill refund' off their own bat on something I ordered last week because 'they believe they could have offered a better price'!

meoklmrk91

tk123 wrote: »

Maybe mail amazon and ask them why it's gone up? They sent me a 'goodwill refund' off their own bat on something I ordered last week because 'they believe they could have offered a better price'!

Think I might actually do that, big fan of amazon, I have spent literally thousands on there over the last few years, dog food and cat food alone and I am spending hundreds. They have the best customer service so I'll send them off a mail and see what they say.

Millem

Salmon and rice flavour is now cheaper than the duck one so I have switched! I have 5 subscriptions so get 15% off. Still coming in at £25.33 I have put in an order for a 6kg bag of burns alert chicken and rice (it is basically just normal burns but vat free £15.81 as it is aimed at assistance dogs) as one of the dogs skin is acting up (I think it could be the beet pulp in skinners) the other two are doing great on skinners. The normal burns 15kg is working out cheaper per kg than the 6kg but I don't want a big bag as the 6kg will last ages and 15kg will go stale.

Gran Hermano

Bumping this as was able to order 15kg of Skinners duck and rice 15kg earlier thus week. Sold and fulfilled by Amazon UK. Shipped yesterday. Free super saver delivery. Non subscription but had option to subscribe again. GBP 23.99