Honey's

Honey's Out of Season Working Dog Food: Wild Pheasant review

Name: Honey's Out of Season Working Dog Food: Wild Pheasant
Brand: Honey's

81.2/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Raw feeding at its most literal: one animal minced whole with its bone, a third of seasonal vegetables, and nothing else on the label. Honey's adds no supplements as a matter of principle. Twelve flavours run from free range chicken to wild pheasant and venison, across our Good, Excellent and Outstanding bands.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the whole recipe in one sentence
Single-protein diets, since most flavours hold to one species from meat to bone
Dogs that have been through the everyday meats. Wild pheasant and wild venison are genuinely novel
Working and sporting dogs, which the richer flavours are built to fuel
Owners who would sooner skip synthetic supplements

Worth watching

The usual raw routine: freezer space, a defrosting plan, clean bowls and surfaces
Energy swings widely between flavours, so recheck portions every time you switch
Wild rabbit includes lamb breast, and the wild game and the two blends carry two meats
Packs are 250g and 500g, so a big dog gets through several a day

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

How this scores

How we score

81.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Match the flavour's richness to your dog's workload, and weigh portions again after every change.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pheasant

The score, in context

Pasture Fed Lamb 84.8
Wild Venison 82.0
Wild Pheasant 81.2
wild rabbit 81.0
Wild Game 72.8
Wild Venison 69.7
Pasture Fed Beef 67.9
Free Range Turkey 66.9
free range duck 65.5
free range pork 64.2
Pasture Fed Lamb 64.0
free range chicken 63.5

12 recipes across Outstanding and Excellent and Good. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All twelve share one build, so choose by animal and richness first; the bands only matter when two flavours would suit your dog equally well.

What's in it

Minced whole wild pheasant67%A genuinely novel protein for a dog that has reacted to the familiar meats.
Finely minced boneGround bone carries the calcium a boneless mince would lack.
Minced carrot, cabbage33% with the rest of the vegetables
Cauliflower, parsnip, other seasonal vegetablesThe mix shifts through the year around the named four.

Named ingredients

Minced whole wild pheasant including finely minced bone (67%). Minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip and other seasonal vegetables (33%).

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 9.7%; The leanest in the range.
Protein, dry matter: 74.5%; Nearly all lean protein.
Band: Outstanding; The top single-animal flavour; the rabbit and the two blends also reach it.

The pick for a lean dog that needs a novel protein.

Most flavours are one animal minced whole at 67% with its bone, often its heart, then a third of minced carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip and other seasonal vegetables. The wild rabbit adds lamb breast, and the wild game and the two blends carry two meats. Honey's adds no supplement of any kind, so the carcass and the vegetables carry all the nutrition.

The animal sets the analysis, and the swing is wide. Fat runs from 9.7% of dry matter on the wild pheasant to 49.4% on the turkey, and energy from 89 to 205 kcal per 100g. Carbohydrate stays close to nothing throughout.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21.6%

Fat

2.8%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

4.5%

Moisture

71%

Dry weight

Protein

74.5%

Fat

9.7%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

15.5%

Carbs

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

67%

Veg

33%

Pricing & size