Cotswold Raw Puppy: Chicken review

1. Beef 90.9
2. Chicken 90.8
3. Beef 90.3

All three Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All three sit a good distance above the middle of the toughest field we score, and the gaps between them are too small to pick a recipe on.

• Organic and free range British chicken with bone65%The only recipe led by a bird.
• Beef heart, beef liver, beef kidney5% eachThe organ share comes from beef.
• Carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli5% eachBulk and micronutrients without starch.
• Free range eggs, milled flaxseed0.5% eachFlaxseed carries omega fats and fibre.
• Wheatgerm, turmeric, kelp0.25% down to 0.15%Wheatgerm for vitamin E, kelp for iodine.
• Diatomaceous earth0.12%A fossilised algae powder, mildly abrasive, used for gut housekeeping.
• Milk thistle, dandelion, nettle leaf, alfalfa, spirulina, thyme0.05% down to 0.02%

No calcium figure on the analysis. A large or giant breed puppy owner will want to ask Cotswold for it.

Beef organs sit behind the chicken, so this is not a single-animal recipe.

Lead meat

Chicken on the bone 65%

80% beef on the other two

Ash, dry matter

9.6%

7.2% on the beef

Energy

190 kcal per 100g

Between the tripe and the beef

For a pup that has not taken to red meat, though the organs are still beef.

All three are built to one plan. Meat, bone and organ come first, itemised cut by cut, then carrot, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli at 5% each, then a long tail of whole foods measured to two decimal places. Bone is ground into every mince, which is where a raw recipe gets its calcium.

There is no vitamin premix and so no additives panel: the micronutrition arrives as liver, kelp and wheatgerm. What varies is the lead meat and the richness, from 150 kcal per 100g on the tripe to 196 on the beef.

Price per kilo

£5.95 (RRP)

Pack

500 g, 1 kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

300 to 450 g a day, 375 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.23

Middle of the raw market, and strong value for what is in the recipe.