Chudleys puppy food
Chudleys is a UK dog food brand best known for its working and everyday adult recipes, and honestly, their range here is built around adult dogs rather than a dedicated puppy formula. If you came looking for Chudleys puppy food specifically, the straightforward answer is what we stock from them is aimed at grown dogs — so this page also points you towards what does suit a puppy.
What Chudleys actually makes
The Chudleys range we carry runs across adult and working-dog recipes — chicken and fish, beef and tripe, a sensitive lamb formula, and a working-focused crunch among them — built for dogs that have finished growing, whether that is a family pet or a dog with a physically demanding routine.
None of what we stock from Chudleys is formulated and marketed as a specific puppy recipe, which matters because a growing puppy has different energy and mineral needs to an adult dog, particularly around controlled growth in larger breeds. An adult formula is built for maintenance, not for supporting that growth properly.
What to feed a puppy instead
If you are after a puppy food rather than specifically a Chudleys one, our wider puppy range covers proper growth formulas from other brands, sized for small, medium and large breeds. That is the more useful place to start if what actually matters to you is feeding a puppy correctly rather than the brand on the bag.
Once your dog reaches adulthood — later for a large breed than a small one — an everyday working or family formula like the Chudleys range becomes a reasonable option to look at, alongside the other adult foods we stock.
For this need
Everything below is in stock with us, priced with delivery worked out, and packed and posted by hand in the UK.
Chudleys Classic
A maintenance dry food for dogs with a lower workload, with joint-support herbs included
£29.49
Chudleys Working Crunch
High-protein working dog food with a joint-care herb blend, for active and gundog breeds
£30.49
Chudleys Salmon with Rice & Veg
Chudleys' salmon working-dog food, formulated without wheat-gluten, soya or egg
£41.39
Chudleys Sensitive Lamb
A lamb-based dry food, formulated without wheat gluten or soya, for sensitive stomachs
£42.39
Pedigree Tasty Minis Puppy Treats Chewy Cubes with Chicken
Soft chewy puppy training treats with 13% chicken and added calcium, 125g
£2.25
Forthglade Complete Puppy Chicken with Liver Grain Free — 18 x 395g Trays
Sold as a case: 18 x 395g trays. A complete grain-free wet food for puppies, built on 71% chicken and 4% chicken liver
£35.89
Bakers Puppy Superfoods Chicken with Vegetables
Bakers Puppy Chicken & Vegetables dry dog food, 12.5kg, complete food for puppies from 6 weeks to 24 months
£39.15
Harringtons Puppy Turkey & Rice
Complete turkey puppy food with 30% protein and feeding bands by adult weight
£6.49
James Wellbeloved Grain Free Puppy/Junior Dry Dog Food Turkey & Veg
Grain-free turkey and potato kibble for puppies and junior dogs, evenly balanced recipe
£12.75
Wagg Puppy Treats
Puppy Treats in a 120G pack, with 23.2% protein and 7% fat and full label detail
£1.49
Common questions
- Does Chudleys make a puppy-specific food?
- Not within the range we carry — what we stock from Chudleys is built around adult and working-dog formulas. If a dedicated puppy recipe from the brand exists elsewhere, it is not part of what we currently offer, so we point puppy owners to our wider puppy food range instead.
- Can I feed an adult Chudleys formula to a puppy?
- It is not the right choice. Adult food is built for maintenance rather than growth, and a puppy — especially a larger breed — has different energy and mineral needs while developing. Choose a proper puppy formula and move to an adult diet once your dog has finished growing.
- What age can a dog move onto Chudleys?
- Once they have reached adulthood, which happens later for large breeds than small ones — sometimes not until 18 months to two years for the biggest dogs. There is no single age that applies to every breed, so it is worth checking rather than assuming.
- What should I look for in a puppy food if not Chudleys?
- Look for a food clearly labelled as a complete puppy or growth formula, sized appropriately for your puppy's expected adult size, since large-breed puppies in particular need controlled growth. Our puppy food range is a straightforward place to compare options built for that job.
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Written by Matt Garnett, who runs Giddy Pets and is a lifelong pet owner — not a vet. This is general information, not veterinary advice, and it cannot replace an examination by the vet who knows your animal. How we write these guides.