Lance Mackey has won his third Iditarod in a row with Larry & Maple running as lead dogs. Mackey was about six hours ahead of the second- and third-place mushers, Sebastian Schnuelle of Canada and John Baker of Kotzebue. Larry has been one of Mackey's two lead dogs for three years in a row.How does he do it?
Well, he's a very good musher, he's been pretty lucky, and he has a team of top dogs who are well-trained and very well-conditioned.
And what does he feed those dogs while he trains them? Well one big part of the menu is a dog food with CORN in it!
Corn? Oh. My. God. How could he?
Well, the same way almost every working dog in the world, from bird dog to working terrier, and from Iditarod dog to racing greyhound, is fed a dry dog food with a significant amount of corn in it.
Corn works, and there is not a single study that shows putting corn in dog food is bad.
Not a one. Quite the opposite.
Does that mean that the dogs are mostly eating corn? Of course not, and especially not during a race when 10,000-12,000 calories a day are being sucked down per dog. You need a lot of fat and protein to get 12,000 calories inside a dog. That said, when the dogs are training (i.e. the other 350 days of the year), calorie intake is a lot less than during a 1,000-mile race, and dried kibble is a large part of the diet -- kibble with corn in it.
As for feeding 80 dogs at a crack, try to do it without a kibbled dog food or a fish wheel located right outside your cabin!
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