Birds and cereal.

Slightly random thread this, I meant to post it a little while go.

I was given several cases of rather grim Slovenian muesli (thank you sponsors!); it looks like the fluff you'd find at the in the bottom of an old kitchen drawer.

The box assures me that the contents are in fact oats, bran, barley, germs and flakes and various nuts.

Rather than chuck it all, or foisting it upon an enemy, can I make fat balls for birds with it?
This sort of thing?



Does anyone have a minimal effort type methodology for me to follow?

Feel free to congratulate me on resisting the obvious thread title temptations.
Im maturing. Slowly.

 

Well done Melinda, I only saw Shiney's name as I was scrolling down & I knew what was coming next:DOH::D

 

Hmmmm .... we had a problem last year with kids from another village banging on doors demanding 'trick or treat' on haloween

a bit of brown sugar .... a good sprinkling of cinnamon and can pass them off as south african doe!-nuts


just joking!

 

@ Ziggy

:D Well you can only imagine my grin when I saw your own name!

Felicitations on your own self restraint, sir.


Shiney- Cheers Shiney!

Nice idea about the suspended platform. An elegant solution!

 

Bleugrh! :D

 

I've made fir cone bird feeders for many years by mixing cheap bird seed, breadcrumbs, crushed peanuts, etc. into molten lard (I'm sure I can remember there being a problem with birds being fed vegetable suet?). Tie a bit of string around the top of the fir cones to hang them up, squeeze the warm mix into them and roll them in cheap oats. Stiffen the mix with some flour if required.

We used to sell loads of these at PTA events and the only criticism was that the birds liked them so much the birds ate them too quickly.

 

:D I can. this is the first thread I remember talking to you when you threatened physical violence towards me

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/edible-gardening/2348-miserable-haul.html

I'm sure we spoke before that, but this one stuck in my mind:WINK1:

 

This reminds me of something I did couple years ago. I bought a box of Go Lean cereal from Kaushi , and I did not like it. So I put it in an onion sock and hung it out for the birds and squirrels to eat. Couple of weeks went by, no one touched it. So I wrote the company, Kaushi, told them that the cereal is so bad that God's creaturs don't even like it. They sent me coupons for more.

 

Use it in winter to grit your sidewalk.......

 

Im giggling at that thread! :D

To be fair though, it wasnt just you! I threatened half that thread with dead arms. :D

God Im so rowdy! :o

 

good thought Catztail, but it would get soft and mushy all over the place.

 

Made I laugh too

 

OK- today I bought my first ever pat of lard. A bargain at just 39 pence of the realm.

I decided to use professionally rendered animal gubbins.

Pouring fat from joints of meat just isnt me!


Any tips about ratio of fat to museli? Or just stir until its stiff?