The home made suet idea is OK but remember you may be a vegetarian, as are we,
but birds by nature are not. They need the fat they obtain from the grease in
the bugs they eat. I would suggest adding olive oil or canola oil to the mix.
John
Roanoke, VA
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From: Deapesh Misra <deapesh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, December 5, 2009 10:51:31 AM
Subject: [Va-bird] Vegetarian-Suet Feed !
Hi,
My wife and I, have been thinking hard for a vegetarian replacement for suet.
My wife came with an idea which is working great. Here is the recipe:
* knead wheat flour and water so as to obtain a mass of dough
* mix in the bird seeds into the dough (we are currently using 'Kaytee Ultimate
Nut and Fruit Blend'.
And that is it, we put the dough out in a suet cage!
We have had the following birds eat from it so far:
* Carolina Wrens
* White Breasted Nuthatches
* Carolina Chickadees
* Downy Woodpeckers
It seems to us that one advantage of this system is that, when the dough is
still soft, smaller birds feed from it. And when it dries out and gets hard,
woodpeckers and wrens only continue to feed from it.
-Deapesh
Fairfax, VA
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