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Butchers Joints & Coat Can: With Chicken review

Name: Butchers Joints & Coat Can: With Chicken
Brand: Butchers

76.8/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

The meatiest recipe Butchers makes, in a tin, with a joint and coat package that prints its numbers where most makers wave vaguely. All three tins land in our Excellent band. Estimated carbohydrate stops at 10.1% of dry matter against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs beginning to slow down, with the joint ingredients named and quantified
A dry or dull coat. Salmon oil and algae oil both bring omega 3
Protein without much else, at 44.4% of dry matter
Cereal-free feeding: no grain in any of the three
An adult and a senior sharing one dinner, as the tins are offered for both

Worth watching

Small joint doses, so keep any prescribed treatment going alongside
Salmon oil in every tin, including the chicken
Chicken and beef in all three, so none suits an elimination diet
Green lipped mussel, for the few dogs that react to shellfish

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

How this scores

How we score

76.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg dog needs a little over two cans a day, so the larger multipack makes sense for a bigger dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Chicken 76.8
With Turkey 76.8
With Salmon 76.7

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three sit at the upper end of the wet band, and nothing meaningful separates them.

What's in it

British and Irish farmed meats: chicken, beef40.5%, 13.5%The highest single meat share in the range, from two animals.
Broth (water, dried seaweed)43%Declared openly, and why a tin this meaty reads 82% moisture.
Salmon oil1%Long-chain omega 3 for the coat, and fish in every tin.
Minerals
Dried algae oil0.12%More omega 3.
Green lipped mussel0.07%A shellfish, and a natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.015%, 0.007%Printed with figures. Background support in a dinner, not a dose.
Parsley, chicory root, rosehip, mintChicory root's inulin feeds gut bacteria.

Vitamins A, D3 at 250 I.U. and E with biotin, manganese and zinc from two sources each, and iodine.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meats (Chicken 40.5%, Beef 13.5%), Broth 43% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Salmon Oil 1%, Minerals, Dried Algae Oil 0.12%, Green Lipped Mussel 0.07%, Parsley, Glucosamine 0.015%, Chicory Root, Rosehip, Mint, Chondroitin 0.007%.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 40.5%, beef 13.5%; Three animals in the other two.
Vitamin D3: 250 I.U. per kilo; The same on the Turkey; 125 I.U. on the Salmon.

The simplest tin of the three, with two animals and the most chicken.

All three tins share one build: British and Irish farmed meat, broth at around 43% with dried seaweed, salmon oil at 1% and dried algae oil at 0.12%. The joint package closes every label with figures printed: green lipped mussel at 0.07%, glucosamine at 0.015% and chondroitin at 0.007%.

The analysis is identical across the range, at 44.4% protein and 33.3% fat on a dry matter basis with no cereal or potato. Only the third animal changes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

84 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

33.3%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

10.1%

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

32.4%

Added water

43%

Veg

6.7%

Oils

1.1%

Other

16.8%

Pricing & size