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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:57 PM Apr 2016

Not for people but the birds love this stuff.

The birds in my back yard love this stuff. I suggest you make a double or triple recipe tho--they go thorough it fast.

No Melt Suet

1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup lard
2 cups quick cook oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup white flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup birdseed mix

Melt the lard & peanut butter, mix in the rest. Pour into a 9x13 pan and cool. Cut into squares that fit your suet feeders. If the mix is too dry and crumbly re-heat and add more peanut butter & lard. If too soft re-heat and add cornmeal etc.

Everything loves this stuff.

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Not for people but the birds love this stuff. (Original Post) flamin lib Apr 2016 OP
Excellent! k&r jonno99 Apr 2016 #1
I mean EVERYTHING loves this stuff. flamin lib Apr 2016 #2
Yep - and squirrels too no doubt! (I've got 'em stymied though). jonno99 Apr 2016 #3
how do you stymie squirrels? nt grasswire Apr 2016 #7
By preventing or hindering their progress...nt jonno99 Apr 2016 #8
Your recipe is very similar to what I make, and birds come from miles japple Apr 2016 #4
Back when I had a pet gecko, I used to put mealworms in mine. GoCubsGo Apr 2016 #5
I put out meal worms for the bluebirds. We have 5 hatchlings right japple Apr 2016 #6

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
2. I mean EVERYTHING loves this stuff.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:08 PM
Apr 2016

Wood peckers, jays, chickadees, wrens, dove, every song bird known to man. Just not humming birds.

jonno99

(2,620 posts)
3. Yep - and squirrels too no doubt! (I've got 'em stymied though).
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 04:12 PM
Apr 2016

Thanks again, I'm gonna have to try it.



japple

(9,833 posts)
4. Your recipe is very similar to what I make, and birds come from miles
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:32 PM
Apr 2016

around just to eat it. I use more peanut butter and no flour or sugar. I have put in just about everything that was getting ready to expire in my cabinets (that birds can handle)--sunflower seeds, dried fruit/nuts, molasses, grits, quinoa, etc.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
5. Back when I had a pet gecko, I used to put mealworms in mine.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 04:23 PM
Apr 2016

I had a meal worm colony for lizard food, and I would often wind up with way more than it ate. If I had an abundance of mealworms at the time I was making suet cakes, I would put a bunch of them in the freezer to make them go to sleep forever before putting them into the mix. The bluebirds and woodpeckers really liked them.

japple

(9,833 posts)
6. I put out meal worms for the bluebirds. We have 5 hatchlings right
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 05:54 PM
Apr 2016

now and can hear them singing to the parents "we's hongry...feed us!"

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