Comments on: Easy Homemade Bird Suet Recipe

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:18:39 +0000

[...] I end this post, I thought I’d place a link to my easy homemade bird suet recipe. I’ve received some nice feedback via private email from people who have tried it and are now [...]

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:31:16 +0000

Hi Consuelo:
Thank you for commenting. I’d never heard about peanut butter being dangerous, and because of what you have shared, I did some research and decided to make a post all about peanut butter. Please go to this post Is Peanut Butter OK To Use In Homemade Suet Recipes? and you can read my complete reply to you.

But the bottom line is … NO. Peanut butter is not dangerous or lethal to certain birds, AS LONG AS there is a gritty ingredient incorporated into a homemade bird suet recipe, or in a store bought suet cake.

By: consuelo

consuelo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:03 +0000

I was looking for a suet recipe, and after your nice page, I found this information on a forum where they were talking about suet and I read that peanut butter can be very lethal for some species. I will copy the information I found: "... I have a book about hand taming wild birds that I purchased back in the early '90's and it's full of wonderful information. The author says peanut butter is a danger to our little fellows like the titmice and chickadee. He says that it depends on the bird but some will rely on PB alone and when a seed-eating bird feeds entirely on peanut butter, he loses the gravel from his gizzard, and it doesn't function normally, it shrinks and his liver becomes enlarged. The bird is soon very ill or dead. He says some Chickadees die soon after eating their first meal of peanut butter because after eating they cram their little mouths full of it and carry it away. When they try to deposit the butter in a hiding place it sticks to the roof of their mouths; in the struggle to dislodge it, the butter is packed tighter and the birds choke to death. It also causes them to become egg bound."

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:54:36 +0000

Hi Charlotte:
I think we’d all like to see what that suet log looks like, at least I would.

If you email me the photo (artisticgarden [at] charter.net), I’ll be happy to post it here on the blog. Thanks in advance if can you send it!

By: Charlotte Caffee

Charlotte Caffee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:08:29 +0000

I use basically the same recipe, but I add a handful of raisins to it. Someone gave me a very small log where sections had been drilled out and it has a hook to hang it. I put the suet within each of the sections and hang it outside and the birds love it! I have to make big batches, too. I also refrigerate what wasn’t put out for the birds. I’ve taken some great pictures of birds that I normally wouldn’t see.