Michie's of Cornwall

Michie's of Cornwall Premium Complete Adult: Wild Venison review

Name: Michie's of Cornwall Premium Complete Adult: Wild Venison
Brand: Michie's of Cornwall

86.9/100Outstanding

RawAdult

Flavour

Five Outstanding raw recipes you could nearly gather from a butcher and a greengrocer, with a percentage against every entry. Liver is held at 10% in every tub, and there is no premix: a short line of botanicals and oils does that job. The Turkey with Lamb stands level with the rest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets, as the Chicken, the Turkey and the Venison each keep to one land animal
A percentage against everything, meat, offal, vegetables and fruit
Smaller dogs and smaller freezers: 500g and 1kg packs
Dogs that suit some plant matter alongside the meat
Rotation feeders, since the five share one build and swap the animal

Worth watching

Organic cod liver oil in all five, so fish reaches the bowl whatever you serve
Cooked white potato and sweet potato in every tub, so not a starch-free bowl
No calcium figure; the ingredient line is where the bone content has to be read
Freezer to fridge to thaw, then the bowl, the board and your hands to wash

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

How this scores

How we score

86.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Michie's asks 3% of bodyweight a day on the single-meat tubs and 2% on the two-meat ones, so check which you are ordering before you portion.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Free Range Chicken 88.2
Turkey 88.1
Turkey 88.0
Free Range Chicken 87.2
Wild Venison 86.9

All five Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All five stand level with a raw field that is already excellent, and they differ from one another by degree.

What's in it

Wild venison trim35%
Wild venison ribs20%Written out as 10% meat and 10% bone.
Wild venison liver, heart10% and 5%The most itemised offal in the range.
Fresh broccoli or runner beans7%
Cooked white potato7%Cooked so its starch is usable. A gentler energy source than fat alone.
Fresh carrot7%
Fresh apple (deseeded)6%
Cooked sweet potato2%
Alfalfa, organic cod liver oil, coconut oil, sea kelp, turmericStands in for a premix: cod liver oil for vitamin D and omega 3, kelp for iodine. Fish in every tub.

No vitamin and mineral premix. The botanicals line and the 10% liver carry that job between them.

Named ingredients

Meat & Offal Content: 35% Wild Venison Trim, 20% Wild Venison Ribs (10% Meat & 10% Bone), 10% Wild Venison Liver, 5% Wild Venison Heart, Vegetables & Fruit Content: Fresh Broccoli/Runner Beans 7%, Cooked White Potato 7%, Fresh Carrot 7%, Fresh Apple (Deseeded) 6%, Cooked Sweet Potato 2%, Botanicals/Oils Content: Alfalfa, Organic Cod Liver Oil, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Sea Kelp, Organic Turmeric

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 60.1%; Highest in the range.
Fat, dry matter: 9.3%; Leanest; the Chicken with Lamb is 31.3%.
Energy: 93 kcal per 100g; Nothing in the range is leaner.

For a dog that piles on the pounds too readily, the pick of the five.

Every tub is built to one plan: 70% meat and offal, with liver at 10% in all five. Bone comes in through the meat, with no separate mineral entry, and no calcium figure is printed, so ash is the only clue to it. The plant fraction is identical across the range, carrot, two cooked potatoes, apple and broccoli or runner beans, each with a percentage.

The cooked potatoes lift carbohydrate to between 11.4% and 16.1% of dry matter, where the typical raw food sits at 5.0%. Organic cod liver oil is in every tub.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

92.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

16.1%

Fat

2.49%

Fibre

Ash

2.9%

Moisture

73.2%

Dry weight

Protein

60.1%

Fat

9.3%

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

10.8%

Carbs

16.1%

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

70%

Carbs

16%

Veg

13.1%

Oils

0.8%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size