Walker & Drake

Walker & Drake Cold Pressed: Duck review

Name: Walker & Drake Cold Pressed: Duck
Brand: Walker & Drake

74.1/100Excellent

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

One cold-pressed recipe worked three ways, with a named dried meat leading each list and no cereal anywhere. The chicken and duck sit in our Excellent band and the ocean fish one step down in Good. Every vitamin and trace element carries a printed dose.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fast eaters: a cold-pressed pellet softens in water and never swells
Owners with no interest in cereal
Mixed households, every recipe labelled for all life stages and sizes
Older and heavier dogs, with glucosamine and chondroitin in every recipe
Testing before committing, with a 2kg bag beside the 6kg and 10kg

Worth watching

Poultry fat in the chicken, which names no bird
Ocean fish is a category with no species behind it
The joint pair carries no printed dose
Keep the bag sealed and dry, since the pellets fall apart in water

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

How this scores

How we score

74.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a dog on an elimination trial, the duck is the one that names a single animal.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken 75.7
Duck 74.1
Ocean Fish 60.0

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

The plant-heavy middle of each label holds the range back, and the ocean fish sits a band below the other two on its unnamed fish and pea protein.

What's in it

Dried duck39%The one animal named on the whole list.
Sweet potato, potato
Brewer's yeast
Rapeseed oilA plant fat, keeping the label to a single animal.
FOS inulin, yeast Bio-Mos, psyllium husk powder
Apple, carrot, tomato, seaweed, cranberry
Flavour Bioflavex, fenugreek, green tea extract, fennel seed, blueberry, yucca, marigold powder
Glucosamine, chondroitinUndosed.

Vitamins A, D3, E, the B group, C and K with zinc, manganese, copper and iron, every one with a per-kilo figure.

Named ingredients

Dried Duck 39%, Sweet Potato, Potato, Brewers Yeast, Rapeseed Oil, FOS Inulin, Yeast Bio-Mos, Psyllium Husk Powder, Apple, Carrot, Tomato, Seaweed, Cranberry, Flavour Bioflavex, Glucosamine, Fenugreek, Green Tea Extract, Fennel Seed, Blueberry, Yucca Schidigera, Chondroitin, Marigold Powder.

Against the range

Animals named: Duck only; Egg and poultry fat on the chicken; pea protein and salmon oil on the fish.
Fat, as fed: 8.0%; The lowest of the three.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.22%; The highest; 1.67% on the chicken.

For an elimination trial this is the cleanest choice in the range.

Each recipe leads with a dried meat weighed after drying, so the percentage describes the finished pellet. Sweet potato and potato take the place of cereal, and a long tail of prebiotics, produce and botanicals follows, with glucosamine and chondroitin undosed.

Protein converts to 35.6% of dry matter on all three. The fat source is where they part: poultry fat in the chicken, rapeseed oil in the duck, salmon oil in the ocean fish, which also adds pea protein.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

360 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

10.6%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

35.6%

Fat

8.9%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

39.6%

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

39%

Carbs

44.4%

Veg

1.9%

Oils

3.7%

Other

11%

Pricing & size