Country Dog

Country Dog Premium Grain Free Adult 1+: Chicken & Potato review

Name: Country Dog Premium Grain Free Adult 1+: Chicken & Potato
Brand: Country Dog

64.3/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Two single-animal recipes, a bird or a fish, both in our Good band. The salmon bag goes furthest at 45% salmon on a sweet potato base, against 35% chicken in the other. Each label prints its percentages down to the cranberry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners steering clear of cereal. Potato and sweet potato do all the carrying
Dogs fed one animal at a time
A house feeding an adult and an older dog, as both labels cover adult and senior
Dogs who could do with some joint help, with glucosamine and chondroitin declared
A dog that has gone off poultry and can move across to the salmon

Worth watching

Zinc on unnamed protein hydrolysates in both bags, so neither is watertight for a strict elimination trial
Fish from first ingredient to last in the salmon recipe
Chicken fat at 7% in the chicken bag, which keeps it firmly poultry

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

How this scores

How we score

64.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. If your dog has reacted to fish or poultry before, pick the bag that avoids it and check the fat source too.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Salmon 69.5
Chicken 64.3

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The salmon reads a shade ahead of the chicken because it declares more animal and asks less of its potato.

What's in it

Chicken: chicken meal, freshly prepared chicken35% (25% and 10%)The meal is the half that survives the oven, so the headline figure turns into real protein.
Potato27%
Sweet potato19%Starch with some fibre and a slower release.
Chicken fat7%Takes fat to 14%. Keeps the bag poultry through and through.
Beet pulp2.8%Soft, mostly soluble fibre for firmer stools.
Dried brewers yeast, flaxseed2.5% each
Chicken gravy, minerals, seaweedSeaweed for iodine.
Mannan oligosaccharide, fructo oligosaccharide0.5% eachThe prebiotic pair, only in this bag.
Yucca extract, glucosamine, chondroitin, cranberry0.05% down to 0.01%

Zinc as a sulphate and as a chelate of protein hydrolysates, with selenium as sodium selenite.

The zinc chelate rides on hydrolysates that name no species, which matters only on a strict exclusion plan.

Named ingredients

Chicken 35% (Chicken Meal 25%, Freshly Prepared Chicken 10%), Potato (27%), Sweet Potato (19%), Chicken Fat (7%), Beet Pulp (2.8%), Dried Brewers Yeast (2.5%), Flaxseed (2.5%), Chicken Gravy Minerals, Seaweed, Prebiotic Mannan Oligosacharide (0.5%), Prebiotic Fructo Oligosaccharide (0.5%), Yucca Extract (0.05%), Glucosamine Sulphate (0.045%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.015%), Cranberry (0.01%).

Against the range

Meat: 35% chicken; 45% salmon in the other bag
Fat: 14%, from chicken fat; 10% in the salmon, from rapeseed oil
Energy: 370 kcal per 100g; 326 kcal in the salmon
Prebiotics: MOS and FOS at 0.5% each; Not on the salmon label

The livelier of the two bags, and the one to pick for a dog that needs the extra energy.

Two grain-free recipes, each holding to one animal from top to bottom: chicken in one bag, salmon in the other. Both print the split between dried meal and freshly prepared meat, and the meal is the bigger share in each. Potato and sweet potato do the binding with no cereal on either list, and beet pulp adds soft fibre.

Both declare glucosamine and chondroitin and carry seaweed, yucca and cranberry at 0.01%. In both, part of the zinc rides on protein hydrolysates that name no species. What varies is the meat share, the fat source and the energy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

44.6%

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

37.2%

Carbs

48.8%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

Other

6.1%

Pricing & size