Hello

has anyone had any experience or have views on Techni-cal. Our GR (22 months) was fed on Techni-cal Puppy and is on the Adult food currently. We have a new GR puppy. When I looked at the Techni-cal label it did not state the chicken content in either the puppy or adult food. A lot of other foods I have been looking at have far clearer labels. I did ask Technical for this information but got no response. Because of this and the fact that it can be difficult to find i am considering a change of food for the adult and puppy. I have had no real problems with this food so am reluctant to change simply because I didn't get the info i was after

Thanks
Andrew

Hi, I found this if it is any help http://www.techni-cal.com/pages/dogproducts/DogProducts.asp?Category=lifestages&Product=adult  :) Sarah

Thanks Sarah

I had seen this and the UK equivalent site . I am unable to see from this how much Chicken or Rice is in the product. Other food labels seem to make this far clearer. This was the question I subbmitted to Techni-Cal via their web site.

Andrew

Chicken meal, ground corn, ground rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a source of vitamin E, and citric acid), chicken, whole dried egg, beet pulp, ground wheat, flaxseed, calcium carbonate, natural flavour, sodium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, citric acid, lecithin, choline chloride, vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, niacin, vitamin C, inositol, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, beta carotene, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, vitamin K, biotin, vitamin B12), minerals (zinc proteinate, ferrous sulfate, iron proteinate, zinc oxide, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), ascorbyl-polyphosphate, yucca schidigera extract, dried rosemary.

Chicken meal (not to be confused with chicken as we know it) is the largest SINGLE ingredient, the cereals in descending order of weight are ground corn (maize), ground rice, ground wheat, flaxseed.  Generally food manufactureres will not detail the EXACT content of the ingredients only give a minimum guaranteed analysis.  You may get a better answer if you ask what the digestibility or bio-availability of the protein is (as opposed to the crude protein percentage on the label) and what percentage of the protein is complete and incomplete.  There are added amino acids to compensate for those lacking in the incomplete proteins.  The company nutritionist should be able to answer this.

Not sure if that helps.

Seen worse labelling, one or two of the most high profile pet food manufacturers only list ingredients as followsL

cereal, meat and vegetable derivatives etc!

I know someone who feeds or used to feed Techni-cal.  It is apparently very similar to Eukanuba.  Thats all I know but thought I would share it anyway :D