Ingredients:
Chicken (>24%), maize, wheat, animal fat, sorghum, barley, poultry meal, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, dried whole egg, brewer's dried yeast, potassium chloride, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, fish oil, linseed, DL-methionine. [for < 10 kg] Contains EC permitted antioxidants. [for >= 10 kg] Contains EC permitted antioxidants: tocopherols.
Feeding Guide
Their guide for our imaginary 20Kg Adult dog is 185g per day.
Costings and Comparisons
On 16th April 2011 the online price was 69.25€ for a 15Kg bag
The daily feeding cost for giving our 20Kg dog 180g of this works out at 0,85€
To feed the Natural Hypoallergenic Burns Chicken (real chicken meat!) and Maize (the nearest equivalent to the Eukaneuba) would be 0,77€ or, with Chicken & Rice, 0,87€ per day.
Star Rating
1 star (just being generous!)
Closing Note
It does not specify dry chicken as the first ingredient so this is "fresh chicken" which is 75% water and it does not specify Chicken Meat so it is likely to contain very little actual meat - the content sourced from chicken carcases (after the meat has been removed!) is likely to be only around 6% although it also includes
Chicken Digest - it also has additional salt which, together with the Chicken Digest are only flavour enhancers without which the dog would find the bowl of cereals rather unpalatable.
It contains Maize as the second ingredient - reasonably digestable but wheat is 3rd on the list and can be a source of allergies in many dogs. Combined with barley as the 6th ingredient it can clearly be seen that this is a food based heavily on cereals.
Animal fat is a low quality ingredient produced by forcing carcass left-overs through a fine mesh at high pressure.
There is also
Sodium Hexametaphosphate (E452i) as a preservative which adds to the Sodium content.