Stella & Chewy's Duck Duck Goose Dinner Morsels Frozen Dog Food

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Stella & Chewy's Duck Duck Goose Frozen Raw Dinner Morsels

Raw poultry built on duck, cage-free turkey and goose, in loose frozen pieces you scoop by the cup rather than patties you count. Stella puts the recipe at 95% poultry, organs and bone.

Three poultry species, and no chicken

Duck with ground bone, cage-free turkey, turkey liver, goose, turkey gizzard. That's the whole animal portion.

There is no chicken in it, which is the practical reason most people reach for this recipe. Chicken is the most common protein in American dog food by a wide margin, so a dog who has to avoid it ends up with a short list of options. This is one of them, and it stays entirely within poultry rather than jumping to beef or fish.

Be precise about what that means though: this is poultry without chicken, not a single-protein food. Three bird species are in it. If you're working through proteins one at a time to isolate something, a recipe with three birds in it won't tell you much... the single-species frozen recipes are Super Beef, Chewy's Chicken, Dandy Lamb and Absolutely Rabbit.

Morsels or patties? The nutrition is the same

Same figures throughout. The choice is about portioning:

• Morsels suit a dog whose amount doesn't land neatly on a patty, a dog whose portion changes as it grows or slims, and anyone topping another food rather than feeding a full raw meal. You measure them
• Patties suit a settled routine where you grab two and walk away. You count them

Three places Stella's own pages disagree

We cross-checked this list against the other forms of the same recipe. Three things came out of it, and we'd rather show you than smooth them over.

Organic cranberries are missing from this list. They appear on the Duck Duck Goose patties list, in the produce block. On this morsels page they're absent, and the produce items also run in a different order. We looked twice. The guaranteed analysis and calorie figures are identical to the patties, which is what you'd expect if the recipe is the same and the web copy simply dropped a line... Stella's website has done that before, including a zinc line on another recipe. We're printing their list as published rather than pasting cranberries back in.

This page is the more accurate of the two. The Duck Duck Goose patties page lists "Magnesium Proteinate" in the trace-mineral run. This morsels page correctly reads Manganese Proteinate, which is the mineral that belongs in that chelate series. So on that one detail, the morsels page has it right and the patties page has a typo.

No turkey heart and no salt. Neither appears here. Both appear on the list Stella publishes for the freeze-dried Duck Duck Goose. The frozen patties page matches this one... no heart, no salt. So the two frozen forms agree with each other and disagree with the freeze-dried.

None of this is a reason not to buy the food. All of it is a reason to ask us to read the actual box if a detail matters to you, which we're glad to do.

The rest of the recipe

Pumpkin seed, organic carrots, spinach, broccoli, beets, squash and blueberries. Fenugreek seed, kelp, four probiotic strains, a full vitamin and mineral package, added taurine. Pea-free, lentil-free and potato-free.

What a cup of these actually weighs

Stella publishes 247 kcal per cup and 2,060 kcal per kilo. Together those mean a measured cup of these morsels weighs about 4.2 oz, or roughly 120 grams.

That's our calculation from Stella's numbers rather than something they publish, so treat it as close rather than exact. By cup we mean a standard measured 8 oz dry measuring cup, level, not heaped... a cup of frozen raw is a good deal heavier than a cup of kibble, and this is the second most calorie-dense recipe in the range, so a heaped cup adds up quickly.

Why the protein number looks low next to the freeze-dried

Because this food is 70% water and the freeze-dried version is about 5%. Stella's freeze-dried page publishes a second "rehydrated" analysis showing what the dried food becomes once the water goes back in, and it matches the figures on this page.

Same recipe, water in or water out. A 15% frozen morsel is not a weaker food than a 40-something-percent freeze-dried one. What differs is price per pound of food, freezer space, and shipping... frozen is cheaper on the same recipe but is pickup and local delivery only. Freeze-dried costs more, keeps in a cupboard, and ships free over $75.

Handling raw food safely

From Stella's own published guidance, with the morsel-specific points called out:

• Defrost overnight in a covered container in the refrigerator. Morsels can also be defrosted in a bowl on the counter for 10 to 20 minutes... a shortcut Stella gives for morsels and not for patties, because small pieces thaw fast
• To thaw faster still, seal the food in a zip-top bag or glass bowl and submerge in warm water
• Never cook, heat or microwave it
• Do not refreeze once thawed
• Wash your hands before and after handling it
• Use a clean dish every time, and clean any utensils or surfaces the raw food touches
• Served food can sit out up to two hours... discard anything left after that

One gap worth knowing: Stella publishes a two-day refrigerator window for thawed patties but states no post-thaw window for morsels anywhere we could find, so we won't invent one. Treat thawed morsels no more generously than patties. The countertop shortcut means you can thaw what you need as you need it.

None of this handling guidance appears on Stella's product page... it comes from their separate feeding-frozen-food article. If there are small children or anyone immune-compromised in the house, talk to us and to your doctor before switching to raw.

Full ingredient list

Duck with Ground Bone, Cage-Free Turkey, Turkey Liver, Goose, Turkey Gizzard, Pumpkin Seed, Organic Carrots, Organic Spinach, Organic Broccoli, Organic Beets, Organic Squash, Organic Blueberries, Fenugreek Seed, Potassium Chloride, Dried Kelp, Sodium Phosphate, Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Choline Chloride, Dried Pediococcus Acidilactici fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus fermentation product, Dried Bifidobacterium Longum fermentation product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans fermentation product, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Taurine, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid.

Reproduced exactly as Stella & Chewy's publishes it, including the absent cranberries discussed above.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 15.00%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 11.50%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 2.00%
• Moisture (max) ... 70.00%

Calorie content

247 kcal per cup ... 2,060 kcal/kg

Feeding guidelines

Stella's published amounts for adult dogs, per day, split across two meals. Measured 8 oz dry cups, level.

Every chart is a starting point. Check your dog's body condition after two or three weeks and adjust.

Switching over

Stella's guidance: seven to ten days, mixing with the current food and shifting the ratio. Sudden changes and overfeeding both cause digestive upset.

Sizes

Check the size selector above for what we currently stock. Stella does not publish package sizes for any of their frozen morsels on their website, so we'd rather point you at our own stock than repeat a figure they haven't given.

On the label statement

Stella does not publish the formal AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement or the life stage on their website for any frozen or freeze-dried raw product, so we can't tell you from here which life stage it's approved for. Ask us and we'll read it off the box rather than guess.

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