Canagan

Canagan Small Breed: Free Range Chicken review

Name: Canagan Small Breed: Free Range Chicken
Brand: Canagan

74.2/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

Canagan's grain-free formula taken down a size for little jaws, with chicken and game in our Excellent band and the salmon in Good. High declared meat and restrained carbohydrate do most of the lifting. Each variety swaps the lead animal and keeps everything else the same.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breeds, from the recipe to the feeding guide
A small-breed puppy, as every variety covers puppy and adult on one label
Rotation feeding between three recipes built the same way
Stiff or ageing small dogs on the chicken or game, where the joint trio is dosed in print

Worth watching

Fish on every label, headlining or further down
Chicken gravy in the Country Game, so that one is no chicken-free option
Rich, energy-dense kibble. A small dog reaches its limit quickly, so weigh the portions

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

How this scores

How we score

74.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies and adults. The label runs from 50 grams a day at 3kg to 120 grams at 10kg, so weigh each meal.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Country Game 75.6
Free Range Chicken 74.2
Scottish Salmon 68.1

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap between the three is modest, so choose on protein and not on placement.

What's in it

Freshly prepared free range chicken26%
Dried chicken26%An even split with the fresh, and the dried half carries more of the protein.
Sweet potato, peas, potatoGrain-free binding.
Chicken fat4.2%
Alfalfa
Dried egg, chicken gravy3%, 1.5%
Salmon oil1.2%The only fish on the label.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphate830, 830, 610 mg/kgThe highest printed joint doses in the range.
Apple, carrot, fructooligosaccharides, spinach, psyllium, seaweed, botanicals

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Free Range Chicken (26%), Dried Chicken (26%), Sweet Potato, Peas, Potato, Chicken Fat (4.2%), Alfalfa, Dried Egg (3%), Chicken Gravy (1.5%), Salmon Oil (1.2%), Glucosamine (830 mg/kg), Apple, MSM (830 mg/kg), Carrot, Fructooligosaccharides, Spinach, Psyllium, Seaweed, Chondroitin Sulphate (610 mg/kg), Peppermint, Camomile, Marigold, Cranberry, Aniseed & Fenugreek.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 26% fresh, 26% dried; Duck-led game, fish-led salmon
Other animals: Egg and salmon oil only; Several species on the other two
Joint trio: 830, 830 and 610 mg/kg; Lower on the game, absent on the salmon

The simplest label of the three, and the natural first pick for a small dog with no known sensitivities.

Three grain-free recipes on one construction: freshly prepared meat or fish at the top, dried shares behind it, and sweet potato, peas and potato doing the binding. Estimated carbohydrate runs from 30.1% to 36.4% of dry matter, against 46.2% for typical adult dry food.

What changes is the lead animal and the joint trio. Chicken and game print glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin with doses; the salmon leaves them out. Fish appears on all three labels, and the same closing run of fruits and botanicals finishes each.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

391 kcal/100g

Protein

34%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

37%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

33.6%

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

56.5%

Carbs

31.4%

Veg

4.3%

Oils

5.4%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size