WorkingHPRs

WorkingHPRs Working Dog: Chicken & Rice Cube review

Name: WorkingHPRs Working Dog: Chicken & Rice Cube
Brand: WorkingHPRs

43.6/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

WorkingHPRs' plainest line: four cereal-and-meat-meal recipes for busy dogs on long days. Lamb & Rice, Turkey & Rice and Large Breed Chicken & Rice sit in our Good band. Chicken & Rice Cube is a band under, its poultry meal and undeclared moisture leaving it the least to show.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs on long days, the audience the line is named for
Kennels and multi-dog homes where one simple recipe does for several dogs
A named animal: lamb meal and turkey meal, each at 26%
Big working dogs. The large breed recipe adds joint support and salmon oil
Cereal-fed dogs that have never had trouble with it

Worth watching

Poultry meal on both chicken recipes, so the bird in the name is not confirmed
Poultry fat in all four, so none keeps to one animal
Modest protein for building condition on a lean dog

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

How this scores

How we score

43.6/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults, the large breed recipe from a 25kg dog upward. A dog genuinely working eats more than the 15kg figures, and the bags' charts are written with that in mind.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Turkey 58.0
Lamb 56.1
Large Breed Chicken 50.8
Chicken 43.6

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

The gap between the cube and the other three is mostly about what the labels tell you, not the day your dog is having.

What's in it

Rice26%Opens this one.
Poultry meal26%Poultry covers goose, duck, turkey and chicken, so the chicken in the name is not confirmed.
Barley, oatsHonest cereals; oats bring manganese, selenium and B1.
Poultry fat
Sugar beet pulpSoluble and insoluble fibre.
Fish mealPuts fish in the recipe.
Brewers yeast
Minerals, vitamins, yucca schidigera extractYucca is there for stool odour.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures rest on the standard 8% assumption and the energy figure is an estimate.

Named ingredients

Rice (26%), Poultry Meal (26%), Barley, Oats, Poultry Fat, Sugar Beet Pulp, Fish Meal, Brewers Yeast, Minerals, Vitamins, Yucca Schidigera Extract

Against the range

Moisture: Not declared; Declared on the other three.
Fat, dry matter: 9.2%; The least; up to 15.3% on the large breed.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 55.0%; The highest; 47.0% on the large breed.
Calcium: Not declared; 1.64% to 2.19% of dry matter on the others.

The leanest label in the line on both fat and information.

All four open on a meat meal at 26% and rice at 26%, with barley and oats behind. A meal has had its water driven off, so that share puts far more protein in the kibble than a fresh entry would. Poultry fat runs through every recipe, the lamb and turkey included. Cereal carries a lot: estimated carbohydrate runs from 47.0% to 55.0% of dry matter against 46.2% typical, and protein sits modestly between 21.7% and 25.1%. Fat is what separates them most, from 9.2% to 15.3% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

319 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

20%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

55%

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

29.5%

Carbs

63.7%

Oils

4.1%

Other

2.7%

Pricing & size