Wolf Tucker

Wolf Tucker Complete Raw Meals: Duck Meal review

Name: Wolf Tucker Complete Raw Meals: Duck Meal
Brand: Wolf Tucker

88.4/100Outstanding

RawPuppyAdult

Flavour

Frozen 500g tubs built on one honest idea: a named animal with its bone and liver, its total share printed, and nothing vague on any of the eight lists. You can read a label in the time it takes to prise the lid off. All eight sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Raw feeders who want bone and offal doing the mineral work
Rotation across beef, chicken, duck and turkey, all on one construction
Households with a puppy among the adults; most of the range is labelled from puppy up
Dogs kept clear of starch. No entry on any label is a cereal or a pulse
Owners short on freezer space, as the tubs stack tidily

Worth watching

Salmon oil on every label, single-meat tubs included
Beef inside two of the chicken-named recipes, so read each list for an exclusion plan
A night's thaw in the fridge, and hands and bowls to wash after serving

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

How this scores

How we score

88.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Most tubs are labelled from puppy upwards, with the Beef Meal, the Sprats and Tripe and the Turkey for adults. No calcium figure is printed, so ask Wolf Tucker before raising a large-breed puppy on it.

Food type

Raw

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken Meal 88.8
Duck Meal 88.4
Chicken 87.8
Chicken 87.3
Sprats 87.1
Beef Meal 87.0
Turkey Meal 86.5
Beef 83.1

All eight Outstanding. Typical raw food: Outstanding.

All eight keep pace with the strongest raw food we cover, and the Chicken Meal's small lead is a fine margin on the analysis, not a different food.

What's in it

Duck with bone, duck liver90% total duckNo other land animal on the list.
Carrot
Green vegetables: broccoli, kale, cabbageEvery green named, nothing left as a loose category.
Apple
Salmon oilOmega 3, and fish in every tub.
KelpIodine, with no added premix to do the job.

Salmon oil makes this tub unsuitable for a fish-free exclusion trial.

Named ingredients

Duck with Bone, Duck Liver (Total Duck 90%), Carrot, Green Vegetables (Brocolli, Kale, Cabbage), Apple, Salmon Oil, Kelp

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 51.0%; The richest conversion; 25.6% on the Chicken Meal.
Ash, dry matter: 8.2%; The lowest of the eight.
Meat: Duck only; Beef, chicken and turkey elsewhere.

The tub for a dog steering around the everyday meats.

Every tub follows one build: a named animal with its bone and liver, the total for that animal printed as a percentage, then carrot, named greens and apple, closing on salmon oil and kelp. Three tubs add sunflower seed granulate and three bring beef tripe. There is no cereal, no pulse and no added vitamin or mineral premix.

Bone and kelp do the mineral work, liver and salmon oil the vitamin work. Carbohydrate is zero on six of the eight. No label prints a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

179.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13.7%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

69.6%

Dry weight

Protein

45.1%

Fat

51%

Fibre

6.6%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

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

72.4%

Veg

25%

Oils

2.5%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £4.98 (RRP)
Pack: 500 g tub - the only size sold as its own product (single `Default Title` variant, 500 g). Also sold inside Wolf Tucker's own multi-tub boxes rather than in any larger tub: the 6 kg / 12 kg / 18 kg mixed boxes listed in the notes section below.
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 330 to 405 g a day, 370 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £1.84

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

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