Rosie's Farm

Rosie's Farm Traditional Wet: Adult Shepherd's Pie with Lamb review

Name: Rosie's Farm Traditional Wet: Adult Shepherd's Pie with Lamb
Brand: Rosie's Farm

79.9/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

A wet range that reads like a Sunday kitchen: meat, stock, a few vegetables. Five of the seven sit in our Excellent band, with the country style beef and the slow cooked chicken and turkey a step up in Outstanding. The cuts are spelled out, so you can see the heart, liver and lung inside the 60%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog kept off cereals. None of the seven recipes carries a grain
Owners who want the cuts named, from heart and liver to rumen and gizzard
Feeding a pup and an older dog at once, with a recipe for every stage
A dog that needs a less common animal: the Poacher's Pot brings game and pheasant
Large dogs, as an 800g size sits on the five main recipes
Fussy eaters, since the vegetables change while the build underneath stays the same

Worth watching

Salmon in the Poacher's Pot and herring in the Seaside Feast, for a fish avoiding dog
Game in the Poacher's Pot with no animal named
Linseed oil at 0.2% as the only omega 3 on the recipes without fish
No vitamin D3 on the Seaside Feast panel, where every other recipe prints it

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

How this scores

How we score

79.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

There is a recipe for puppies, adults and seniors. On the puppy recipe, the chart asks for the adult weight your pup is growing towards, not today's.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Adult Country-Style Beef 80.6
Adult Slow-cooked Chicken 80.4
Adult Shepherd's Pie 79.9
Puppy Spring Chicken Dinner 79.8
Senior Comforting Turkey Dinner 79.7
Adult Seaside Feast 78.0
Adult Poacher's Pot Game 71.9

Seven recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All seven hold an already high line for wet food, and what separates them is a matter of degree you would never notice with the tin in your hand.

What's in it

Lamb: heart, meat, liver, rumen, lung60%Every cut printed.
Stock25.8%
Potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cranberries3% each
Peas1%
Minerals, linseed oil1%, 0.2%

Vitamin D3 at 200 IU, zinc at 25mg, manganese at 1.4mg and iodine at 0.75mg per kilo.

Named ingredients

60% lamb (heart, meat, liver, rumen, lung), 25.8% stock, 3% potatoes, 3% carrots, 3% broccoli, 3% cranberries, 1% peas, 1% minerals, 0.2% linseed oil

Against the range

Meat: Lamb 60%; The only lamb recipe.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 12.6%; Among the lowest, with the puppy at 12.5%.
Protein, dry matter: 46.5%; 44.3% to 47.0% across the seven.

One of the meatiest bowls in the range, and the one for a dog that does well on lamb.

Sixty per cent named meat is the pattern across almost the whole range, with the cuts printed in full, and stock declared at 25.8% as its own line on every label. The vegetables come at 3% or 1% an entry and change with the recipe. No recipe carries a cereal, and carbohydrate converts to between 12.5% and 20.5% of dry matter across the seven.

Two recipes bring fish in: herring leads the Seaside Feast and salmon sits in the Poacher's Pot. Everywhere else the only oil is linseed at 0.2%, and the added panel is short, with a figure on every line.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

111 kcal/100g

Protein

10.7%

Fat

6.6%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

46.5%

Fat

28.7%

Fibre

1.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

12.6%

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

60%

Added water

25.8%

Carbs

Veg

Oils

0.2%

Other

Pricing & size