Countrymans

Countrymans Countryman's Greyhound Maintenance 20% review

Name: Countrymans Countryman's Greyhound Maintenance 20%
Brand: Countrymans

22.7/100Poor

DryAdult

A plain maintenance kibble for the resting sighthound, sold by the sack, and it sits in our Poor band. What puts it there is a label written entirely in categories. The analysis is gentle and steady, pitched at a dog ticking over between seasons.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Greyhound and lurcher keepers wanting a steady ration between racing or coursing seasons
A resting or lightly exercised adult, on protein at 20% and fat at 8%
Kennels feeding several sighthounds from one recipe
Dogs long settled on a simple cereal bowl with no sensitivities to work around

Worth watching

No animal named anywhere, so the meat can vary and an elimination plan has nothing to anchor to
Cereals with no type given, so wheat cannot be ruled in or out
Carbohydrate at 56.5% of dry matter against 46.2% typical

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

How this scores

How we score

22.7/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Written for adult sighthounds at rest. The energy figure is our estimate, so let the ribs and waistline fine-tune the scoop over the first fortnight.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

The score, in context

Countryman's Greyhound Maintenance 20% 22.7

All one Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

Almost all of the gap to the typical dry food comes from what the label leaves unsaid; nothing in the sack itself is a warning.

What's in it

CerealsCovers anything from good whole grain to by-product, and can change from batch to batch.
Meat and animal derivativesCarcass parts left after the human-food cuts. No species named.
Derivatives of vegetable originAlmost anything left from processing grains, vegetables, legumes or oilseed.
Oils and fatsNeither source nor animal given.
Sodium chloridePlain salt, the one entry that says exactly what it is.

No moisture figure is declared, so the dry matter readings assume the 8% a kibble normally carries.

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat & animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils & fats & sodium chloride.

Against the range

Every working entry is a category: cereals, meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats. Salt is the only thing named exactly. Protein is set at 20% and fat at 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

320 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

56.5%

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

29.4%

Carbs

64.4%

Oils

6.2%

Pricing & size