Buddy Dry Adult: Chicken and Lamb Feast review

1. Chicken 64.9
2. Wild Venison 63.6

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Both reach the same band, with the Chicken and Lamb Feast the marginally stronger build because less of its bowl is starch.

• Dried chicken protein, dried lamb protein25%, 15%The concentrated form, through the oven with its weight intact.
• Peas, sweet potatoThe binding, with no cereal.
• Fresh chicken10%Adds appeal more than structure.
• Chicken fatEnergy, preserved with tocopherols, and chicken whatever the front says.
• Dried apples, carrots, dried kelp
• Hydrolysed chicken liver2%A flavour layer for fussy eaters.
• Salmon oilOmega 3, and fish in both flavours.
• Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026%, 0.016%The declared joint pair.
• MOS, FOS, Mojave yucca0.015%, 0.012%, 0.01%
• Citrus, curcuma and rosemary extracts0.005% eachAntioxidant seasoning.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with biotin, zinc, iron, manganese, iodine, copper and selenium, all dosed on the label.

Meat

Dried chicken 25%, dried lamb 15%, fresh chicken 10%

Wild Venison: dried deer 35%, fresh deer 15%

Fat

15% as fed

12% in the venison

Carbohydrate, dry matter

42.8%

46.2% in the venison

The stronger construction, for a buyer with a free choice.

Both recipes lead with dried meat protein and bind on peas and sweet potato, with no cereal. Chicken fat, hydrolysed chicken liver at 2% and salmon oil run through both, so each flavour carries chicken and fish whatever the bag says. The joint pair, prebiotics and yucca are identical and dosed in percentages.

What varies is the meat and the build: Chicken and Lamb Feast is richer, at 15% fat, while Wild Venison runs at 12% with more of the bowl in starch.

Price per kilo

£7.92 (RRP)

Pack

2 kg, 5 kg, 12 kg, 17 kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

160 to 195 g a day, 180 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.43

Up among the dearer kibbles, and priced above its analysis.