This recipe combines red meat, poultry and fish into a tasty formula that offers the nutritional benefits of all three. The result is a complete meal packed with essential vitamins & minerals. Plus, it’s added with the proper ratio of antioxidant rich fruits & vegetables to help your pup thrive.
Meat First Recipes Complete & Balanced Limited Ingredient Recipe
Turkey, Turkey Meal, Salmon, Lamb Meal, Chickpeas, Peas, Chickpea Flour, Pea Flour, Duck Meal, Flaxseed, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Turkey Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Flavor, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacinamide, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Biotin), Salmon Oil, Taurine, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Proteinate, Calcium Iodate), Mixed Tocopherols, Choline Chloride, L-Carnitine, Rosemary Extract, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtillis Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidum Fermentation Product.
10LBS OR LESS | 1/4 – 1/2 CUP |
10 – 20 LBS | 1/2 – 1 1/4 CUPS |
20 – 30 LBS | 1 1/4 – 1 3/4 CUPS |
30 – 40 LBS | 1 3/4 – 2 1/4 CUPS |
40 – 60 LBS | 2 1/4 – 2 3/4 CUPS |
60 – 80 LBS | 2 3/4 – 3 1/4 CUPS |
80 – 100 LBS | 3 1/4 – 3 1/2 CUPS |
PUPPIES Feed up to 2 times per pound of body weight over adult levels.PREGNANT FEMALES Minimal increase needed during first 6 weeks. Weeks 7, 8, and 9 increase up to 25%.
LACTATING FEMALES Immediately after whelping, nutritional demand increases by 50% compared to maintenance levels. During peak lactation (around 4-5 weeks), increase feeding up to 300% of regular intake. Feed in 3 equal meals per day.
When switching your dog’s diet, we recommend that it should be done gradually over 5-7 days, increasing the amount each day with the present diet as sudden change in diet may result in digestive disturbances.
See your veterinarian regularly. Keep fresh water available.
Zignature® Zssential Formula for dogs is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages, including growth of large size dogs (70 lbs or more as an adult).
Calorie Content
3,700 kcal per kg
405 kcal per cup
At Pets Global we are committed to completing comprehensive AAFCO feeding studies with all of our diets. As you can imagine this is a giant undertaking and to gain the most of the studies we are using a system AAFCO outlines as product families. This process allows for products within the same brand to be included in a group with a diet that has undergone and successfully completed an AAFCO feeding study. To be included in a product family they must be nutritionally similar and meet key AAFCO nutrient requirements to the diet that was tested. AAFCO suggests that testing one diet in a product family allows for all the nutritionally similar diets to be considered similar to the tested for nutritional adequacy. At Pets Global we push ourselves past the minimum requirements and have started with the AAFCO product families but will continue to test each individual diet until we have complete feeding studies on all our formulas.
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