Make Bird Feeder Balls

Encourage feathered friends to your garden by making your own fat balls the wilko way.

Make bird feeder balls. An old flower pot will make a beautiful bird feeder. You will need a plastic bottle with the top cut off and this will need holes drilled in as well. Get creative when you are drilling the holes and make a pattern so that they are functional and decorative. You just melt the fat in a pan over a low heat or in a microwave and add the dried ingredients.

You can also pop them in a bird feeder if you have one. Put your fat balls in the fridge for a few hours until they harden up and then they ll be ready to hang. These fat balls for small birds will bring blue tits robins and sparr. Add 1 3 cup of water and stir.

Aim for a cookie. How to make bird suet balls shaping the suet ball wait for the suet mix to cool. How to make fat ball bird feeders step 1. The moulds were anything i could collect up washed out yogurt.

Twitter https. You can use all sorts of kitchen scraps such as cheese and dry porridge oats. Shape the suet into balls with your hands. Then put the mixture into moulds to cool and harden.

In a mixer 4 cups cracked sunflower seed 4 cups yellow corn meal 1 2 of a 40 oz peanut butter jar or 20 oz. You will need to drill holes in the pot so that the birdseed will come out. A great way to look after birds over winter is to make homemade bird fat balls to leave outside. Just mix with melted lard or suet and set in the fridge overnight.

Join in the conversation. Cut the lard into cubes put them in the tin and stand it in a pot. The method of making homemade fat balls is a simple one. Native seeds compost clay and a little bit of water are all you need to make seed balls.

Heated in the microwave makes it easy to pour heat vegetable shortening and pour in enough to make either one big ball or about 12 baseball size balls to feed bluebirds as well as almost all other birds. Once i had done all of my moulds i put them into a shallow. Choose a tree or shrub with easy access for birds and don t put too many out at a time as uneaten food will attract pests. If the mixture it too wet add a little more compost.

Here s how to make your own with lard and seed. You are looking for an even coating of fat over the seeds. Method to make fat balls for birds. Birds love fat cakes and at this time of year they re just what they need to give them energy and keep warm.

But the feeding balls needn t be shop bought. Mix 1 2 cup fine powdered clay with 1 2 cup of compost. Try feeding your robins bluebirds brown thrashers and pretty much all other bird feeder birds this recipe. Put it all together.