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Ci Foods Ci Tickety Boo Puppy: Turkey, Duck, Sweet Potato & Camomile (Tiny Bites) review

Name: Ci Foods Ci Tickety Boo Puppy: Turkey, Duck, Sweet Potato & Camomile (Tiny Bites)
Brand: Ci Foods

71.5/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Flavour

Four grain-free puppy recipes built to one pattern, all in our Excellent band, with the mixed chicken recipe a nose in front. The most useful thing the range does is quieter than its meat headline. Every recipe prints its calcium, and every figure sits where growing bone needs it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Moving a pup between flavours, as every bag is built the same way
A choice of protein: chicken, salmon, white fish, turkey and duck all appear
Owners who read the calcium line before anything else
Grain-free households
Large-breed pups, who get a salmon recipe of their own with the joint doses raised
Toy and small breeds, with a tiny-kibble turkey and duck recipe

Worth watching

The omega 3 supplement names no source, so check it with the maker for an exclusion diet
Sweet potato and potato make these starchier bowls than the meat headline suggests
Only the large-breed recipe keeps to one animal

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

How this scores

How we score

71.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Three recipes are listed for small or small and medium pups, and one for large and giant breeds, so match the bag to the size your pup will finish. Recheck the growth chart every couple of weeks.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Chicken 73.5
Salmon 72.4
Turkey 71.5
Salmon 70.2

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

One consistent standard across all four, with the starch from sweet potato and potato the thing that keeps the top of the range from climbing further.

What's in it

Turkey: freshly prepared, dried32%, 18%
Turkey fat, freshly prepared duck, turkey stock5%, 4%, 1%Two birds.
Sweet potato20%
Potato proteinPlant protein supporting the analysis, not more meat.
Peas4%
Potato, beet pulp, linseed
Minerals, vitamins, omega 3 supplement, vegetable stock
Camomile, dill0.3% each
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170, 170, 125 mg/kg
Nucleotides, FOS, MOS96 and 24 mg/kg for the prebiotics

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

60% Turkey & Duck (including Freshly Prepared Turkey 32%, Dried Turkey 18%, Turkey Fat 5%, Freshly Prepared Duck 4%, and Turkey Stock 1%) Sweet Potato (20%), Potato Protein, Peas (4%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals, Vitamins, Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Camomile (0.3%), Dill (0.3%), Nucleotides, Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg).

Against the range

Kibble: Tiny bites; Standard kibble on the others.
Fat, dry matter: 19.6%; The richest of the four.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 35.3%; The lowest in the range.
Energy: 389 kcal per 100g; 373 to 384 on the others.

The richest bowl of the four, sized for small mouths.

Every recipe declares 60% named meat or fish and splits it into freshly prepared and dried portions with a stock behind them. The fresh share still holds its water, so the dried share does more work in the bag than its percentage suggests. Sweet potato, then potato, then beet pulp make up the plant side, and no cereal appears in any of the four.

Calcium is declared on every bag and converts inside the growth range on all of them, from 1.3% to 1.52% of dry matter. Linseed, an unsourced omega 3 supplement, nucleotides and a dosed joint and prebiotic tail run through the whole range. What changes is the animal, the kibble size and the joint doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

389 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

35.3%

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

59%

Added water

1.7%

Carbs

33.5%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size