
The pups in my last litter have had RC (the ones not raw fed) and have grown really nicely (giant breed).
I agree it is expensive for what it is and I would not feed the adult versions to my adults as better foods around. The reason I went for it for the litter is that when you know of hundreds of dogs of your breed growing nicely with it and having good health results it was kind of a safe food to use opposed to using a different food not so widely used/less experiences.
It is also easy to get hold of, another criteria when thinking what food to put a litter on.