The racing portion of the kennel eats the best of the top quality dog foods, plus a variety of meat, fats, fish, and special highly digestible additives. These are snacks pre-made with dog food and their favorite meat snacks. This mix is frozen into little quarter pound cookies. We also take frozen quarter pound pieces of beef, liver, chicken, lamb, turkey, horse, salmon, herring and flavored fat balls. While racing, and individual dog will burn up to 10,000 calories per day, and be fed one snack per hour.
Water is, of course, the most important ingredient.
A fifty mile race takes 3hrs and 45 min. A 200 mile race takes 24 hrs. A 300 mile race takes 48 hrs. The Iditarod, the longest race, takes 11 days or more. We carry 100 lbs of food for the dogs in our sleds, along with booties for their feet, little coats for extreme cold, first aid kit for musher and dogs.