Cobbydog

Cobbydog Working Dog Food: Active Country review

Name: Cobbydog Working Dog Food: Active Country
Brand: Cobbydog

48.9/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

A wheat-based beef biscuit for dogs that spend their days outdoors, with beef meat meal declared plainly at 27%. Both bags finish level in our Average band, one step below the typical adult dry food. For a dog that burns what it eats and comes home muddy, it is an honest, uncomplicated bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Active outdoor dogs, or dogs that carry on as though they work for a living
Owners who want the beef share printed plainly, at 27%
Big appetites. The feeding guide runs from a 15kg dog up past 45kg
Homes with several hard-going dogs eating from one recipe
Trace minerals dosed in print, iron at 133 mg down to selenium at 0.22 mg

Worth watching

Poultry oil is the fat, so a strict beef-only or chicken-free plan cannot run on it
Crude ash at 10.0%, from the bone that travels with meat meal, if minerals are being watched
Wheat opens the list and wheatfeed follows, the thing to weigh if wheat has caused trouble before
Energy at 344 kcal per 100g against 357 for the typical dry food, so a hard day needs the full portion

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

How this scores

How we score

48.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, written for working and outdoor dogs. Check how your dog has done on wheat before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Active Country 48.9
Beef 48.9

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The declared beef share holds both bags up, and wheat leading the list keeps them from climbing.

What's in it

WheatOpens the list. The grain side does plenty of the work here.
Beef meat meal27%Rendered, ground beef protein that goes in dry, so the figure survives the oven close to intact. Named to species.
Whole peas4%The only vegetable entry, and whole keeps the fibre that pea flour loses.
WheatfeedThe mill fraction left after flour is made: fibre and bulk.
Poultry oilThe fat. Poultry names a family, so the bird could be chicken, turkey or duck.
Antioxidants

Iron at 133 mg, zinc at 111 mg, manganese at 40 mg and copper at 20 mg. Iodine follows at 1.63 mg and selenium, as sodium selenite, at 0.22 mg, with vitamins A, D3 and E beside them.

Named ingredients

Wheat, Beef Meat Meal (27.0%), Whole Peas (4.0%), Wheatfeed, Poultry Oil, Additives: Antioxidants

Against the range

Ingredients: Wheat, beef meat meal 27%, whole peas 4%; Identical on Beef & Vegetables.
Protein, dry matter: 23.9%; The same on the other bag.
Price per kilo: £2.35; Beef & Vegetables is £2.41.

The two bags differ only in the name on the front, and this one is the cheaper of the pair.

Both bags print the same ingredient list and the same analysis. Wheat leads, beef meat meal is declared at 27% and whole peas at 4%, with wheatfeed for bulk and poultry oil for the fat. Carbohydrate comes out at about 53.2% of dry matter against 46.2% for the typical adult dry food, and protein at 23.9%. The trace minerals are dosed to the milligram on both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

344 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

53.2%

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

27%

Carbs

45.2%

Oils

8.7%

Other

19.1%

Pricing & size