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Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Puppy Raw Food: Chicken with Tripe review

Name: Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Puppy Raw Food: Chicken with Tripe
Brand: Southend Dog Training

85.9/100Outstanding

RawPuppy

Flavour

Two frozen puppy recipes with a short list and a very high animal share: 90% named meat, taken as muscle, bone and organs. Both sit in our Outstanding band. The beef carries the fuller organ set, and the chicken is the leaner of the two. One gap matters for a growing dog: no calcium figure on either label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want bone, heart and liver doing the job of added minerals
A simple rotation, with one red meat and one poultry recipe built the same way
Puppies that need starch kept out
Several dogs or a chest freezer, with boxes from 1kg up to 50kg of tubs
Growing dogs of any eventual size

Worth watching

No calcium figure. Ring the maker before settling a large breed puppy on it
Salmon oil in both, so neither suits a puppy kept off fish
Freezer space, fridge thawing and clean hands, bowls and surfaces afterwards

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

How this scores

How we score

85.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Portions are a share of bodyweight, so start from the maker's chart and review it as the puppy grows.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 85.9
Beef 84.4

All two Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

Our scoring is toughest on raw puppy food, and both reach its top mark on the strength of a label that is nine parts animal.

What's in it

Chicken: with bone, heart, liver90%No tripe in the itemised list, despite the name.
Butternut squash
Green vegetablesNot broken down.
Blueberry
Salmon oilFish, in a poultry recipe.
Chicory root
Kelp

No calcium figure on the label. Ask the maker before feeding a large breed puppy.

Named for tripe, but tripe is not on the list. If tripe is why you chose it, ask the maker first.

Named ingredients

Chicken 90% (Chicken with Bone, Chicken Heart, Chicken Liver), Butternut Squash, Green Vegetables, Blueberry, Salmon Oil, Chicory Root, Kelp

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 52.1%; 35.9% in the beef.
Energy: 130 kcal per 100g; 156 in the beef.
Oils: Salmon oil; Hemp oil joins it in the beef.

The leaner pick, for a puppy that puts weight on readily.

Each recipe is 90% one animal, itemised as meat with bone and organs. Ground bone is meant to supply the calcium, so there is no premix or vitamin panel, and neither label prints a calcium figure. The other tenth is butternut squash, green vegetables, blueberry, salmon oil, chicory root and kelp, with hemp oil added to the beef.

Carbohydrate barely registers on either analysis. The beef is the richer recipe and the chicken the leaner.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

130.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

14.6%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

0.9%

Ash

Moisture

72%

Dry weight

Protein

52.1%

Fat

32.9%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

10.7%

Carbs

1.1%

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

90%

Veg

7.7%

Oils

0.9%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.48 (RRP)
Pack: 10kg (20 Tubs), 15kg (30 Tubs), 20kg (40 Tubs), 30kg (60 Tubs), 40kg (80 Tubs), 50kg (100 Tubs), 5kg (10 Tubs), 1kg (2 Tubs)
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 580 to 710 g a day, 645 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.89

The leaner recipe, so portions run larger.

Budget end of the market for a raw food, and strong value for what is in the tub.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.