Ci Foods Ci High & Mighty: Large Breed Chicken & Rice review

Our Good band is where this lands, level with the typical adult dry food. What holds it there is doing plain things properly: a printed meat percentage, a dosed joint pack and transparency reading Outstanding, with value Good and protein and processing and nutritional balance sitting at Average.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken 37% (Including Dried Chicken 29%, Chicken Fat 7% & Chicken Gravy 1%), Rice (27%), Barley, Oats, Beet Pulp (2%), Brewer's Yeast, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Glucosamine (355 g/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (335 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (250 mg/kg)

Chicken is 37% of the recipe, and the split tells you it was built for a kibble. Dried chicken takes 29% of that, the concentrated form that carries protein without water to lose, with chicken fat at 7% and gravy at 1% on flavour duty. Declared protein lands at 25%, or 27.2% on a dry matter basis.

Rice at 27% leads the grain contingent with barley and oats behind, and estimated carbohydrate comes out at 47.8% of dry matter, close to the 46.2% typical of adult dry food. Fat at 15.2% of dry matter and 377 kcal/100g give a proper working level of energy for a big frame.

The joint pack is the label's headline act for a large breed: glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin sulphate all appear, with the MSM dosed at 335 mg/kg and the chondroitin at 250 mg/kg. Large dogs load their joints hardest, so seeing the trio in print rather than only in the marketing is a genuine plus.

Brewer's yeast brings natural B vitamins, beet pulp at 2% adds gentle fibre, and calcium converts to 1.41% of dry matter, a comfortable level for a fully grown large breed.

On an otherwise specific list, the omega 3 supplement is the single vague entry. It never names its source, which only matters if you need certainty that no fish has passed through the recipe.

£3.33 a kilo, sold as a 2kg trial bag, a 12kg sack and four-bag bundles of the 2kg size.

Feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition takes around 223 grams a day, roughly £0.74, working from the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal daily (110 × bodyweight^0.75). A large breed will naturally get through more; the label's own table runs to 525 grams for the biggest dogs.