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Tails.com Example Recipes Adult: Tailored Blend For Lurcher review

Name: Tails.com Example Recipes Adult: Tailored Blend For Lurcher
Brand: Tails.com

52.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Tails.com mixes every blend for the dog it is going to, so these five breed examples are a window onto what the mixer draws from. Three sit in our Average band, with the Lurcher and Rottweiler a step up in Good. Chicken is the named meat in all of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the portioning done for them. Each blend arrives measured to its dog
Joints that could use some help, with glucosamine and chondroitin on all five lists
Several dogs with different needs, each with a blend of its own
A dog that does well on chicken

Worth watching

Maize first in three of the five, plus two refined maize fractions
Meat and bone meal on three, naming no animal, so those blends cannot rule a meat in or out
No calcium figure on any example

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

How this scores

How we score

52.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

These are illustrations for adult dogs of every size; the food that arrives is mixed to your own dog's specification, with its own daily amount printed on it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tailored Blend For Rottweiler 63.7
Tailored Blend For Lurcher 52.2
Tailored Blend For Bichon Frise Cross 46.7
Tailored Blend For Cavapoo 46.0
Tailored Blend For Staffordshire Bull Terrier 41.0

Five recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A narrow spread with shared reasons: named chicken and sensible extras, against heavy maize, unnamed meat and bone meal on three and no calcium figure anywhere.

What's in it

Chicken: meal, offal, fat, gravy30.6%Chicken ahead of maize. Meal at 16.8% is the largest part.
Maize
Sweet potatoes, potatoes, beet pulp
Poultry: meal, fat, gravy5.4%Any domestic fowl.
Maize protein feed, brown rice, maize protein
Minerals and vitamins, linseed, dried yeast, dried seaweed
Whole dried egg, brewer's yeastEgg is in this blend.
Salmon oil0.1%Fish, though a small amount.
Glucosamine hydrochloride, MSM, chondroitin sulphateNo declared dose.
Salt, chicory extract, yucca extract, MOS, marigold, beta glucans

Trace elements dosed in print, zinc at 52.61 mg, with L-carnitine at 25.53 mg and vitamins A, D3, E and C.

Carries egg and salmon oil, which only this and the Staffordshire example do.

Named ingredients

Chicken 30.6% (Chicken Meal 16.8%, Chicken Offal 9.2%, Chicken Fat 3%, Chicken Gravy 1.6%), Maize, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Beet Pulp, Poultry 5.4% (Poultry Meal 4.2%, Poultry Fat 0.8%, Poultry Gravy 0.4%), Maize Protein Feed, Brown Rice, Minerals and Vitamins, Linseed, Maize Protein, Dried Yeast, Dried Seaweed, Whole Dried Egg, Brewer's Yeast, Salmon 0.1% (Salmon Oil), Salt, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, MSM, Chondroitin Sulphate, Chicory Extract, Yucca Extract, Prebiotics 0% (MOS), Marigold, Beta Glucans, Antioxidant.

Against the range

First ingredient: Chicken, 30.6%; Maize leads three of the others
Meat and bone meal: None; In the Bichon Frise cross, Cavapoo and Staffordshire
Fat: 10.8%; The lowest; up to 15.0% on the Rottweiler
Extras: Egg, brewer's yeast, salmon oil, MSM, MOS; Shared only with the Staffordshire

The gentlest of these blends on a dog that gains weight easily.

Chicken is the named meat in all five, between 26.2% and 34.2%, broken into meal, offal, fat and gravy, with a smaller poultry entry behind it. Maize runs through every list as whole maize, maize protein feed and maize protein. Brown rice, potatoes and beet pulp fill in, and joint entries appear on all five with no declared dose.

What varies: three blends add meat and bone meal beside beef meal, two put chicken ahead of maize, and two add egg and salmon oil. No blend declares calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362.2 kcal/100g

Protein

22.1%

Fat

10.8%

Fibre

3.4%

Ash

7.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

24%

Fat

11.7%

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

52.3%

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

34.3%

Added water

Carbs

61.7%

Veg

0.2%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size