I have a family friend who ran the iditarod a couple times. I bring her dogs salmon. Helps her with food costs a bit.

?? Not referring to the OP I assume

That is incorrect. The start was moved because their is a large area on the west side of the Alaska range, the farewell burn, that is snow less. Veternarians were warning of stress to the dogs.

Go to Iditarod.com and go to the Insider page. If you subscribe to it, you will be able to see the GPS trackers that the mushers are carrying. It’s a fun way to follow the race.

At least that is what I heard. I guess you know about it than I do, so just ignore what I said!

…..I hope not.

How did she do in the race?

Just found this on the Fairbanks Daily News Minor.

Three races and three completions, but no top tens. Still a really cool accomplishment to even make it to the iditarod.

It sure is! All the logistics, training, and prep is a lot!

That is Fix a Flat my friend.

I was told they feed them sled dogs a lot of beaver meat.

I heard that too, I guess it's really full of protien

Best thing you can feed a working dog IMO.
Nitro for dogs!

You have inflicted a mental image on me that I can only classify as a violation of the Geneva convention, so thanks for that.

Beaver meat is great for dogs but I think salmon was the gold star dog food for mushers for along while. Nowadays they'll usually take any meat though cause it's really expensive to feed your team.

They said at the start of the race, ever single dog on the team receives 10,000 calories worth of food ever single day! That’s a lot of food!

I heard they yet again wanted to avoid all the drunks in the Armpit.

Salmon is the usual feed during the summer months but dried salmon in the winter was a staple for decades. The problem is that it is so low in fat compared to beaver. But you can put up a lot more fish in a day than you can beaver. Whitefish is far superior to salmon because of the fat content AND the dogs will eat whitefish raw & frozen. They won't do that with salmon

I did the math on that once and it’s about equivalent to a 200 lb person eating and metabolizing a gallon and a half of crisco every day . Calorie wise that is.