Henley Raw Deluxe 80-10-10: Farm Mix review

The four mixes finish close together and all four sit in our Outstanding band. Raw is the toughest category we score, and the middle of that field reaches our Outstanding band too, so these trays are keeping very strong company at the top of it. Protein and processing reads Outstanding on every mix, and so do nutritional balance and transparency. That is what a label earns when it percentages every animal in the tray.

Ingredients, as declared: Pork 20%, Ox 20%, Lamb 20%, Chicken 10%, Chicken Bone 10%, Ox Hearts 5%, Pork Lung 5%, Ox Liver 5%, Other Ox Offal 5%

The arithmetic behind the range is the classic raw split, roughly eighty parts meat to ten parts bone to ten parts offal. Henley prints a percentage against every line so you can add it up yourself. Nothing else is in the tray. There is no vegetable fraction, no added oil and no vitamin and mineral premix anywhere in the four.

Hearts do a lot of the work here. Ox hearts, lamb hearts and lamb lung each get their own line, not a general offal entry. Heart is muscle meat carrying a mineral load closer to organ, and that is exactly why raw feeders prize it. Liver is named outright in the Farm Mix, and it is liver that brings the fat soluble vitamins.

Bone is where the calcium comes from, and across this range it arrives as duck bone or chicken bone at 10%. None of the four labels prints a calcium percentage. Crude ash runs between 3.5% and 4.5% of dry matter, on the modest side for bone-in raw. That reads as a light hand with bone, useful to know if you are balancing these trays against a bonier food in the same freezer.

With no premix at all, the micronutrition rests on the organ meats and the spread of species, which is the whole-food position most 80-10-10 makers take. It also means rotation matters more here than it would on a supplemented food, and with four mixes built to the same pattern, moving between them is easy to do.

The analysis reads exactly like the label. Protein converts to between 48.0% and 50.0% of dry matter across the four, fat to between 41.4% and 44.7%, and carbohydrate to no more than 3.7% against a raw typical of 5.0%. These are rich trays shaped by meat and nothing else. The energy figures on all four are estimates, not declared.

The widest spread of species in the range, with pork and ox each at 20% and lamb at the same share. The bone comes from chicken at 10%. It is also the only mix that itemises its organs separately, listing ox hearts, pork lung, ox liver and other ox offal at 5% apiece. No duck appears anywhere on its label either, and it is alone in the range in that.

£5.60 a kilo for the Meat, Heart & Lung, £6.60 for the Farm Mix, and £7.70 for both the Country Mix and the Hillside Mix. Every mix comes in a 500 g recyclable and resealable tray.

The standard maintenance estimate for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition is 840 kcal a day, using 110 × bodyweight^0.75. A day's feeding then runs from £2.69 on the Meat, Heart & Lung to £3.42 on the Country Mix. Energy density drives most of that spread, since the leaner trays feed in larger portions.