
Try These Homemade Suet Recipes!
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Hi
Just wanted to make a comment on starlings not being to hang on upside down suet feeders. Unfortunately the starlings don’t know that they can’t hang from these devices! They do.
Wanted to let people know.
Much easier to purchase the suet cakes -- they are quite reasonably priced, especially when "on sale." They keep for a long time and can be used year-round. Birds love them.
In my area (central PA) millet in bird seed mixtures draws in the house sparrow which subsequently keeps them around my property for attacking bluebirds in the spring. For the past 4 years I have kept the grain out my feeders and last year I didn’t have any problems.
Years ago someone gave us a suet cage that came with a cake of suet that was packaged in a disposable almost square, clear plastic that works great as a suet mold. A few years ago I bought a cake of orange suet hoping the orioles would like it (seems like everyone did) that also provided us with another mold. After they firm up in the freezer we pop out the cakes, wrap them in plastic cling wrap and keep them in the freezer until they are used, thus freeing up the molds for the next batch. We use various wild bird seed mixes, usually with added sunflower seeds in our cakes. They are very popular with the woodpeckers, cardinals and squirrels. We also put out a critter mix on the ground and in platform feeders, bird seed mixes in hanging feeders and nyger in hanging feeders and distribute a critter mix on the ground. We go through about 350 lbs over the course of three months or so.
In the dry ingredients, can I use Bob’s Red Mill organic flaxseed meal in place of yellow cornmeal? I have several bags of this I keep in the freezer and would like to use it in this recipe if it is deemed healthy. I just want to be careful how I make my homemade suet. Thank you!
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