Farm Food

Farm Food HE Sheep review

Name: Farm Food HE Sheep
Brand: Farm Food

57.9/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

The recipe in Farm Food's pressed line that puts a species on its meat, mutton meat meal at 11%, and it reads in our Good band. Cereal still leads, and hemoglobin powder of no stated animal sits second. The full vitamin and trace element panel is printed dose by dose, which is rare at any level.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do well on sheep meat, with mutton named and its share printed
Owners after a red meat pellet
Multi-age homes: one bag is cleared for puppy and senior alike
Small breeds and young dogs, through a mini chunk pressed at 6 mm
Fish-free feeding. No marine ingredient appears

Worth watching

Beef fat and hemoglobin powder of unstated origin beside the mutton, so more than one animal is in the bag
Corn, wheat and rice all ahead of the meat
Whey powder, for a milk-sensitive dog
A generous feeding chart for a 20 to 30kg dog against the pellet's energy. Weigh it out

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

How this scores

How we score

57.9/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size, with calcium at 1.09% of dry matter suiting a growing large breed. At 414 kcal per 100g, weigh the portion before trusting the chart.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Farm Food HE Sheep 57.9

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A modest food that is unusually open about what it contains: naming the mutton helps, while cereal ahead of meat keeps carbohydrate at half the dry matter.

What's in it

Released cornReleased means the starch is opened before pressing, so a cold-pressed food can digest its cereal.
Hemoglobin powderSecond on the list, and no animal is named.
Released wheat, released riceWheat is spelled out on its own.
Mutton meat meal11%Dried, ground meat, offal and connective tissue. A concentrated protein, and the species is named.
Beef fatA second animal.
Whey powderMilk protein.
Brewer's yeastNatural B vitamins.
Vegetable fibres, lecithin, mineralsStructure for the pellet.
Cold pressed sunflower oil, cold pressed linseed oilVitamin E and omega 3 fats.
Inulin

Every dose is printed, from vitamins A, D3, E and K3 through the B group, vitamin C and L-carnitine at 50 mg, with copper and zinc partly as amino acid chelates.

Hemoglobin powder names no animal, and beef fat and whey sit beside the mutton. Not for a strict elimination diet.

Named ingredients

Released corn, hemoglobin powder, released wheat, released rice, mutton meat meal (11%), beef fat, whey powder, brewer's yeast, vegetable fibers, cold pressed sunflower oil, minerals, lecithin, cold pressed linseed oil, inulin, vitamins and trace elements.

Against the range

One cold-pressed recipe built on released corn, wheat and rice, with hemoglobin powder in second place and mutton meat meal at 11% as the one named meat. Beef fat, whey powder and two cold-pressed oils follow, and there is no fish.

Price and value

This one is bagged at 2kg, 4kg, 12kg and 15kg, and the mini chunk for smaller mouths comes in 2kg and 4kg.

For a sense of the portion, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs around 840 kcal a day on the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75), which this pellet supplies in roughly 203 grams. Farm Food's chart gives 340 to 510 grams a day for a dog between 20 and 30kg.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

414.5 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

50%

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

11%

Carbs

66.3%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

4.3%

Other

17.3%

Pricing & size

Pack size: 2 kg · 4 kg · 12 kg · 15 kg - plus "Mini chunk, suitable for puppies and small dog breeds (diameter of 6 mm)": 2 kg · 4 kg
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Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.