Jack Wolf

Jack Wolf Working Dog: Duck review

Name: Jack Wolf Working Dog: Duck
Brand: Jack Wolf

88.5/100Outstanding

RawAdultSenior

Flavour

Five raw recipes on one sum: 80% British animal, then the same five fruit and vegetables every time. Four earn our Outstanding band and the Turkey & Lamb lands in Good. Among the four, pick by which animals agree with your dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who read a label closely, with bone and organ shares written in
Hard-working dogs, fat running high on all five
Rotation feeders: only the animals change
Dogs kept off red meat, the Chicken and the Duck each a single bird
A large dog to fill, the Beef and the Turkey & Lamb also coming in 800g portions

Worth watching

Fish in every recipe, as oil or whole
Frozen delivery, fridge space to defrost and the usual raw hygiene
Calcium from 1.25% to 4.57% of dry matter, so settle a sensitive dog on one recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

88.5/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult and senior dogs of every size. The maker's chart gives 375 grams a day at 15kg; ease from the lightest-boned recipe to the heaviest over a few days.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Beef 90.8
Chicken 89.4
Duck 88.5
Original 87.5
Turkey 58.7

Five recipes across Outstanding and Good. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Four sit so close that the choice is one of richness and protein; the Turkey & Lamb falls behind on protein and processing.

What's in it

British duck with bone80%The richer of the two birds.
Carrot, apple, butternut squash
Broccoli, kale
Salmon oilOmega 3, and fish in the bowl.

Calcium converts to 3.26% of dry matter, more bone than most of the range, which tends to firm the stools.

Named ingredients

British Duck with bone 80%, Carrot, Apple, Butternut Squash, Broccoli, Kale, Salmon Oil.

Against the range

Calcium, dry matter: 3.26%; Only the Turkey & Lamb carries more.
Fat, dry matter: 42.9%; 40.9% on the Beef to 45% on the Original.
Energy: 169 kcal per 100g; 135 on the Beef, 176 on the Original.

A single-bird recipe with more bone in it than the Chicken.

Every recipe is 80% named British animal, one species or two split down the middle, then carrot, apple, butternut squash, broccoli and kale. No cereal, legume or thickener, so carbohydrate converts to between 2.3% and 6.0% of dry matter. Organs are written into the percentages, and no label publishes a vitamin and mineral panel.

Fish is in all five: salmon oil on four, whole salmon and herring in the Original. Bone moves a long way, calcium running from 1.25% to 4.57% of dry matter, and energy from 135 to 176 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

168.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.1%

Fat

13.8%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

3.4%

Moisture

67.8%

Dry weight

Protein

40.7%

Fat

42.9%

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

10.6%

Carbs

4.9%

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

80%

Veg

19.3%

Oils

0.7%

Pricing & size