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Making bird feeders with lard. Home decorating 23 diy birdfeeders that will fill your garden with birds. How to make fat cakes for birds. Particularly in winter suet is a valuable bird food. Melt down enough solid fat such as lard or suet and mix with wild bird seed or peanuts.
You can use almost any seed or grain mixed with beef fat lard or natural peanut butter. Leave enough string so. Mix all your dry ingredients. The moulds were anything i could collect up washed out yogurt.
Allow the lard to warm up to room temperature but don t melt it. Make sure the hole is big enough to let a small bird enter. Melt some lard or suet in a pan and add the dry mix. The best ratio for this recipe is one part fat to two parts dry mixture.
When i have enough i then melt it down and make a seed cake with it. How to make fat ball bird feeders step 1. Suet is essentially a solidified mix of fats which birds eat to stay warm. Cut a hole in the front of an old plastic bottle or milk carton.
Stirring in the melted fat with the dry ingredients. Spoon the mixture into the yogurt pot and wait for it to cool down. The lard is quite useful to the birds in winter as it is an excellent source of calories for them. Spoon the mixture into the plastic container and leave to set.
Thread string through the hole and tie a knot on the inside. Melt the lard in a pan over low heat. A basic suet combines equal parts of beef fat and assorted birdseed. This article has some neat ideas for making bird feeders out of household items.
You can spread them with peanut butter and then add birdseed or spread them with lard and add birdseed. A pine cone bird feeder is an easy inexpensive project perfect even for young birders to make and a great way to add an instant feeding station to your yard. 23 diy birdfeeders that will fill your garden with birds. Once i had done all of my moulds i put them into a shallow.
Then cut it up into small pieces and put it in the mixing bowl. Cut the lard into cubes put them in the tin and stand it in a pot. These feeders can even be customized and many different types of birds will eagerly visit for the treat. How to make a bird feeder making a lard feeder poke a hole in the bottom of a yogurt pot and pull a string through it.