Cheap bird food suggestions

[JV]

Cheap bird food suggestions

I do buy bird food and have gotten lots of feeders but some of the shops have stopped selling some birdfood so i need your help with cheap bird food suggestions. It can be anything!

I already have peunuts(crushed in feeder),fatballs,fat cake,sunflower seeds and hearts,nijer seeds,wild bird seed mix. But the shops have stopped selling some things like the sunflower seeds which are the main foods!

Thank you!

[greenace233]

Hi

The birds in my garden are eating me out of house and home so i try tro make my own. Not sure if these are good for birds, im quite new to all this myself. I mix up vegetable suet with crushed cereal, biscuits, currents, meal worms, peas, finely chopped apple and bird seed, a bit of flour to roll them into balls. They love them, for any other seeds, try a good pet shop, you can get them on line. The tits love my receipe. I find the fat cakes out of stock in lots of shops too. Perhaps is because they melt in the hot whether. Not sure. Hope this helps. Thanks Debbie

[caernerch]

Try the bargain bags of pears & apples from supermarkets. I slice them into 3 or four pieces and microwave them for 2 or 3 mins to soften them. Blackbirds and thrushes love them. If you're realy lucky and have a local greengrocer they might let you have damaged ones foc
caernerch

[JV]

Originally Posted by greenace233

Hi

The birds in my garden are eating me out of house and home so i try tro make my own. Not sure if these are good for birds, im quite new to all this myself. I mix up vegetable suet with crushed cereal, biscuits, currents, meal worms, peas, finely chopped apple and bird seed, a bit of flour to roll them into balls. They love them, for any other seeds, try a good pet shop, you can get them on line. The tits love my receipe. I find the fat cakes out of stock in lots of shops too. Perhaps is because they melt in the hot whether. Not sure. Hope this helps. Thanks Debbie

im going to try this. Its sounds much more better than the plain fat balls in the shops! yeah my bird fat cake is meltinmg and making a mess on the grass by the way!

[JV]

Originally Posted by caernerch

Try the bargain bags of pears & apples from supermarkets. I slice them into 3 or four pieces and microwave them for 2 or 3 mins to soften them. Blackbirds and thrushes love them. If you're realy lucky and have a local greengrocer they might let you have damaged ones foc
caernerch

This sounds good. im going to try this. im sure it will work.

[shenk1]

There are some good suppliers online - Google "birdfood"and it gives great choice from straight foods like sunflower hearts to loads of different mixes (we use Garden Bird Supplies).It works out a lot cheaper in the long term to buy it by the sack.
Alternatively try a farm feeds supplier in your area as they usually sell by the sack too.

And yes they are eating us out of house and home too,but they are worth it

shenk1

[Poppleford Ginny]

Someone suggested to me, in our nearest RSPB shop (!) that Vine House Farm is a source of good, cheap birdfoods. I don't yet know about "cheap" as I haven't yet had time to compare, but has anyone used them, and if so what do you think of the quality? Thanks for any info.
Ginny

[Poppleford Ginny]

I forgot to say, of Vine House Farm that theyare on the internet.
Ginny