Chudleys Duck review

Our Good band holds this recipe, level with the field, since that is where the typical adult dry food sits too. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Average, with transparency and value both Good. The fully named ingredients list and the guaranteed duck minimum earn their keep, while the grain-heavy build and the modest overall meat share hold it around the middle of the pack.

Ingredients, as declared: Duck meal (min 20%) rice, whole grain maize, Whole grain barley, Chicken fat, Prairie meal, Hydrolysed duck, Unmolassed beet pulp, Peas, Alfalfa, (min 4% vegetables) Full fat linseed, Yeast, minerals Seaweed, Salmon oil, Green lipped mussel, Glucosamine, Blackcurrant, Rosemary, Pomegranate, Rosehips, Yucca schidigera, Beetroot

Duck meal at a minimum of 20% leads. The water is out of the meal already, so that figure carries straight through into the finished kibble. Duck is a digestible, well liked meat that suits dogs bored of the common birds. Hydrolysed duck appears later as a palatant, keeping the flavour on message.

Rice, whole grain maize and whole grain barley split the starch three ways, with prairie meal, a maize protein, in support. The carbohydrate estimate comes to 47.8%, or 52.5% of dry matter, a little above the 46.2% typical of adult dry food.

Chicken fat supplies energy and flavour, and it is the one ingredient that complicates the duck story: a dog with a genuine chicken problem needs the fat accounted for as well as the meat. Peas, alfalfa and unmolassed beet pulp look after fibre and plant protein.

The supporting cast is generous for the style. Full fat linseed and salmon oil cover omega 3, glucosamine and green lipped mussel look after joints, and seaweed brings trace minerals. A berry tail from blackcurrant to pomegranate finishes the label politely without powering it. The joint pair carries no printed dose, so count it as a friendly extra and not a therapeutic amount.

£3.03 a kilo, in a 14kg sack or a 2.5kg bucket.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works through roughly 240 grams a day, assuming about 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), putting the day at £0.73. The bag suggests 170 to 335 grams for dogs from 10kg to 25kg.