James & Ella Kibble + Raw Adult: Country Game review

1. Country Game 73.3
2. Grass-Fed Beef 68.4
3. Free-run Chicken 67.5

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

What separates the three is small, with the Country Game's lower carbohydrate edging it ahead and transparency Outstanding on every bag.

• Duck meal30%Does most of the protein work.
• Freshly prepared salmon26%
• Salmon oilDoubles up the fish.
• Freeze-dried venison and wild boar pieces8%Added after cooking.
• Potato, sweet potato, peas4% peas
• Vegetable gravyVegetables not named.
• Beet pulp, minerals
• Dried carrot0.5%Printed as the equivalent of 4% fresh carrots.
• Prebiotic MOS0.2%
• Cranberry, blueberry, marigold, turmeric, spearmint0.015% each berrySeasoning more than substance.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with iodine, copper, iron, manganese and zinc, mostly as plain oxides and sulphates.

Four animals in one bowl: duck, salmon, venison and wild boar.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

29.2%

The lowest; 31.5% and 34.8% in the others.

Protein, dry matter

37.0%

Level with the beef; the chicken is 33.7%.

Animals

Duck, salmon, venison, wild boar

One land animal in each of the others.

The pick for a dog with no exclusions and a taste for something out of the ordinary.

Each recipe declares 60% or more named animal content, split between a dried meat meal, freshly prepared meat and freeze-dried raw pieces at 8% added after cooking. Potato, sweet potato and peas at 4% do the binding, with no grain on any list.

Salmon oil runs through all three. Protein converts to 33.7% to 37.0% of dry matter and carbohydrate to 29.2% to 34.8%, on an assumed 8% moisture since no label declares it. None of the three prints a calcium figure.

Price per kilo

£15.33 (RRP)

Pack

1.5kg, 3kg, 4.5kg, 6kg, 12kg

A 15kg dog eats

155 to 260 g a day, 210 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£3.22

Premium end of the dry market, and fair value for the quality.