Barking Heads

Barking Heads All Hounder Grain Free: Hair Necessities review

Name: Barking Heads All Hounder Grain Free: Hair Necessities
Brand: Barking Heads

64.6/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Three grain-free recipes that are genuinely different tools: a duck for fussy or poultry-weary dogs, a salmon for skin and coat, and a gentler white fish for delicate stomachs. Half of each is declared animal content with its splits printed. All three sit in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that need grain out of the bowl
Fussy eaters. Fuss Pot was built for dogs that turn their nose up at the usual meats
Dull or itchy coats, the job Hair Necessities takes on
Sensitive stomachs, on the white fish recipe with the lowest fat

Worth watching

Fish through and through in two recipes, so a fish-avoiding dog goes straight to the duck
The duck is the most energy dense, so measure it for a less active dog
More than one fish in the white fish recipe, for a single-species plan

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

64.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Choose the recipe by your dog's problem first, then weigh portions from the label.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Fuss Pot 65.7
Hair Necessities 64.6
Tummy Loving Care 55.3

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The animal on the label matters far more than the small distance between the three on our scoring.

What's in it

Salmon: 26% freshly prepared Scottish salmon, 20% dried, 4% salmon oil50%All salmon, so one fish.
Sweet potato26%
Potato
Peas10%
Lucerne, minerals
Yeast products, chicory root extract (FOS)1000mg/kg each
Seaweed, dried carrot, mixed herbs, beta glucans

Vitamins A and E with biotin, iron, zinc, manganese and copper as sulphates, extra zinc as a glycine chelate, and iodine; no vitamin D3 is printed.

Named ingredients

Salmon 50% (26% Freshly Prepared Scottish Salmon, 20% Dried Salmon, 4% Salmon Oil), Sweet Potato (26%), Potato, Peas (10%), Lucerne, Minerals, Yeast Products (1000mg/kg), Chicory Root Extract (FOS 1000mg/kg), Seaweed, Dried Carrot (500mg/kg), Mixed Herbs (Peppermint, Rosemary, Oregano & Thyme 500mg/kg), Beta Glucans.

Against the range

Meat: All salmon, 20% dried; The highest dried share in the range.
Biotin: Added; Also on the white fish; not on the duck.
Fat: 13%; Between the duck's 18% and the white fish's 11%.

The marine omega 3 load is the means; skin and coat are the point.

Each recipe declares 50% animal content and prints the split between freshly prepared, dried and the rest. The dried share, the part whose weight survives cooking, is 19% in the duck, 20% in the salmon and 15% in the white fish. Sweet potato leads the plants at 24% to 26%, with potato and peas behind and no grain anywhere.

The tail is shared and dosed down to the herbs, with prebiotics at 1000mg/kg apiece and zinc as both a sulphate and a glycine chelate.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

368 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

48.3%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

50%

Carbs

43.2%

Veg

1.6%

Other

5.2%

Pricing & size