I agree. I'm no science guy either.

I have to with what I see. And I usually reference one of my first posts on this board along this same topic. If a guy wins on corn flakes and cabbage, and turns another onto the corn flakes and cabbage. A person will be hard pressed to get the science of meats and fats and what not conveyed to the corn flakes and cabbage guy. People like to go with what works for them.

Lil Man was being worked for his fourth. A dog that had no stop in him and would work himself til he fell, all day and every day. His work load was near twice that of any other dog I had seen and I felt like I was killing him to make him breathe.

I tried to work some fish in as we got going and the next day he blew hot. I chalked it up to 'they are not machines'. Skipped a day and he was fine. I did not attribute anything to the fish. A week or so later I fed a fish filet, Flounder I think, and he blew out in less than 20 minutes.

I went back over everything I had done and the only thing different was the fish. I finished him out and he made #4 with no breathing issues.

Being I am not the smartest guy sometimes I have to be hit over the head. I took two young dogs and immediately started them thru the paces of a keep, just like it was several stacks involved. When I thought they were both off water and ready to really give it their all for an extended period of time I added a fish filet to their diet, rested a day, fed another filet and back to work. Neither dog made it 20 minutes without blowing hot. I pulled them off the fish and they both went back to being their normal.

Since it works so well for the sled dogs in the frigid temperatures my first thought is that it is the temperature moreso than the dogs. No science, just an assumption.

A friend of mine uses fish and he works his dogs on a 5 and 2 schedule. He says he uses fish on the 5th work day because the nutrient dense proteins really aid in recovery, but he pours the water to them on the 5th day of work and the 1st day of rest in their feed. The second day is back to the chicken based diet and he feels he gets a good recovery.

The kicker is he lived in up state New York, which is also much colder on average than rural NC.

But I have read others comments that it works for them.

Kinda sorta, go figure?

EWO