Harringtons Dry Large Breed Adult: Chicken & Rice review

1. Chicken 52.7
2. Lamb 52.4

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The joint pair and dosed taurine are real additions, and the vague naming of most of the meat holds both bags level with the typical food.

• Chicken and meat meals26% (6.5% dried chicken)Dense dried protein. Only the 6.5% carries a species; the rest goes unnamed.
• Rice14%The largest named plant entry.
• Barley, maize, oatsoats 6%
• Poultry fatA domestic bird, not named.
• Freshly prepared chicken4%In both bags, lamb included.
• Maize proteinConcentrated plant protein that lifts the protein figure without anything animal.
• Peas, linseed, beet pulpFibre, plus the plant form of omega 3 from linseed.
• Poultry gravy0.5%Poultry, not chicken: the one place this bag is vaguer than the lamb.
• Minerals, FOSFOS 0.1%
• Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, dried yucca0.25%, 0.15%, 0.02%The joint pair, dosed in print. Yucca is there for odour.

Taurine at 500 mg per kilo leads a fully dosed panel, with vitamins A, D3 and E and trace minerals mostly as sulphates, preserved with tocopherol-rich extracts.

Named meat

Dried chicken 6.5%

Dried lamb 6.5% in the other bag

Gravy

Poultry

Chicken in the lamb bag

Carbohydrate, dry matter

46.1%

45.0% in the lamb

Ash, dry matter

8.8%

9.9% in the lamb

For a dog that eats chicken happily, this and the lamb are near enough the same bowl.

Two cereal-based kibbles for dogs from 30kg up, identical apart from the named meat and the gravy. Each opens on meat and meat meals at 26%, only 6.5% of it given a species, with freshly prepared chicken at 4% and poultry fat in both. Rice at 14% leads the plants, and maize protein lifts the protein figure.

Glucosamine at 0.25% and chondroitin sulphate at 0.15% are printed on both, with taurine dosed at 500 mg per kilo. Protein converts to 26.4% of dry matter in each, and the energy figures are our estimates.

Price per kilo

£2.57 (RRP)

Pack

14kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

120 to 150 g a day, 135 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.35

Built for large breeds, so the bag's line of 275 to 460 grams for a 30kg to 40kg dog matters more than the 15kg estimate.

Budget end of the market for a dry food, with an analysis that sits a step behind the price.