Heights Farm Adult Extra Joint Care: Chicken & Rice Cube review

1. Chicken 60.7
2. Lamb 58.7

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A named meat meal and a working-dog fat level hold both in Good; the plant half and the undosed extras keep them there.

• Chicken meal26%Dried before mixing, so it reads close to 26% in the kibble.
• Rice26%
• MaizeThe plainest of the grains, and fine for a dog with no reaction to it.
• Chicken fat
• Alfalfa, full fat linseed, peasLinseed brings plant omega 3.
• Yeast, salmon oil, saltSalmon oil for marine omega 3.
• Glucosamine, milk thistle, nettle, seaweed, yucca, green-lipped musselThe joint case. Green-lipped mussel is the pick, but nothing here carries a dose; list position is the only guide.
• Kale, beetroot, carrot, dicalciumDicalcium is a plain calcium and phosphorus source.
• Rosemary, mannan oligosaccharidesA prebiotic from the yeast.

Zinc twice at 350 mg per kilo, as chelate and sulphate, with vitamin E at 250 mg and carnitine at 135 mg per kilo.

Format

A cube

The lamb is a conventional kibble.

Grain

Rice 26%, maize

Rice, oats and barley on the lamb.

Carnitine

135 mg per kilo

600 mg on the lamb, which adds taurine.

Life stage

Adults

The lamb adds seniors.

The cube shape makes some dogs slow down, which suits a dog that bolts its food.

Both recipes open with a named meat meal at 26%, already dried, so the figure holds in the finished kibble. Rice follows at 25% or 26%. Protein lands at 26.7% and fat at 15.6% of dry matter on both.

The joint extras are shared: glucosamine and green-lipped mussel with milk thistle, nettle, seaweed and yucca, none of them dosed. Chicken fat and salmon oil appear on both lists. What changes is the grain behind the rice, maize in one and oats with barley in the other.

Price per kilo

£3.50 (RRP)

Pack

2 kg, 15 kg

A 15kg dog eats

165 to 330 g a day, 250 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.88

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though you pay a little more than the analysis alone would justify.