One of my dogs is on Acana Ranchlands formula, which is now being phased out and replaced with Appalachian Ranch formula. The new formula is different in several ways, but the ingredients still seem very high quality to me. The big difference now seems to be price. They went from $87 per 28.6lb bag to $81 per 25lb bag. That equates to a $0.20/lb increase in price, or about a 6% increase. Also, the KCal content is gone down slightly from 3515Kcal/kg to 3405/kg- a 3% decrease in calorie density - so I need to feed 3% more. So essentially, feeding costs are going up by nearly 10%.
Here are the ingredients of each.
Acana Ranchlands (Canada)
Deboned beef, beef meal, green peas, deboned lamb, lamb meal, whitefish meal*, herring oil, field beans, red lentils, salmon meal, deboned bison, beef liver, lamb liver, sun-cured alfalfa, pea fibre, whole apples, whole pears, yams, whole pumpkin, butternut squash, parsnips, carrots, spinach greens, cranberries, blueberries, kelp, chicory root, juniper berries, angelica root, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, lavender, rosemary.
* ACANA’s whitefish meal contains wild-caught cod, pollock, sole, flounder and halibut.
Acana Appalachian Ranch (USA)
Deboned beef*, deboned pork*, deboned lamb*, lamb meal, beef meal, pork meal, whole green peas, red lentils, pinto beans, beef liver*, beef fat, catfish meal, chickpeas, green lentils, whole yellow peas, deboned bison*, whole catfish*, herring oil, sun-cured alfalfa, natural pork flavor, beef tripe*, lamb tripe*, lamb liver*, pork liver*, beef kidney*, pork kidney*, pork cartilage*, dried kelp, whole pumpkin*, whole butternut squash*, kale*, spinach*, mustard greens*, collard greens*, turnip greens*, carrots*, Red Delicious apples*, Bartlett pears*, freeze-dried beef liver, freeze-dried lamb liver, freeze-dried pork liver*, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), chicory root, turmeric, sarsaparilla root, althea root, rosehips, juniper berries, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried bifidobacterium animalis fermentation product, dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product