Cotswold Raw Active 80/20 Wild: Wild Boar & Duck review

1. Duck 90.6
2. Wild Boar 90.5
3. Wild Range Pheasant 90.4
4. Rabbit 90.2

All four Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Four out of four in the top band is a strong showing in raw, the toughest company a food keeps on our scoring.

• Wild boar35%The rarest meat in the range, and a novelty for almost any dog.
• British duck30%
• Beef heart, beef liver, beef kidney5%, 5%, 5%The same organ set in every pack, and the reason a dog kept off beef cannot use these.
• Carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli5% each
• Free range eggs, milled flaxseed0.5% each
• Wheatgerm0.25%
• Kelp0.15%For iodine.
• Turmeric, milk thistle, dandelion, nettle leaf, alfalfa, spirulina, thyme0.12% down to 0.02%Seasoning more than working doses, and the percentages say so.

No additives panel. Nothing goes in that is not on the label, so the bone supplies the calcium.

Neither meat is described as with bone. Ash at 7.9% of dry matter suggests the bone is there all the same.

Headline meat

Wild boar

Venison or pheasant in the others

Protein, dry matter

53.0%

42.7% to 54.5% across the range

Bone wording

Not stated

With bone on the other three

Worth a look where pork or beef have caused a reaction before.

Every recipe pairs game or duck at 30% to 35% a meat, then adds beef heart, liver and kidney. The plant share is identical across the four: carrot, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each, then eggs, flaxseed, wheatgerm, kelp and a run of herbs down to 0.02%.

No premix goes in, so the analyses reflect meat, bone, organ and vegetables. Protein converts to between 42.7% and 54.5% of dry matter and fat to between 29.7% and 41.3%. None of the labels prints a calcium figure.

Price per kilo

£7.95 (RRP)

Pack

500 g, 1 kg

A 15kg dog eats

300 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.38

One price across all four, so the daily cost does not change with the recipe.

Premium end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.