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Pine Cone Bird Feeder?

A little while back, I saw where someone told how to make large pine cones into bird feeders. It said to roll the pine cones in something?

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and then in bird seed. Can you please tell me exactly how to do this?

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By Darlene in Mississauga (Guest Post)
May 2, 20061 found this helpful

PLEASE DO NOT use peanut butter!! We used to use it for bird feeders when I was a Cub leader and found out that the peanut butter can become stuck on the beaks of birds sometimes plugging up their nostrils and thereby suffocating them.

Thanks

 
By (Guest Post)
May 2, 20060 found this helpful

Some use peanut butter and others, which is more popular, use suet.

 
By Aquarius (Guest Post)
May 3, 20060 found this helpful

Thank you for the info........where do I purchase SUET? I have never come across it in the stores.

 
May 3, 20060 found this helpful

I have read that you CAN roll the pine cone in peanut butter as long as you mix the peanut butter with lard. The small bird's beaks get stuck together with just plain peanut butter.

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I did a search for suet and came up with this:

"Suet is raw beef or mutton fat, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys. It is a solid at room temperature, and melts at about 21°C (70°F). It is a saturated fat.

The primary use of suet is to make tallow in a process called rendering, which involves melting and extended simmering, followed by straining, cooling and usually a repetition of the entire process.

Unlike suet, tallow can be stored for extended periods without refrigeration. It is used to make soap, for cooking, as a bird food, and was once used for making candles.

The type sold in supermarkets is dehydrated suet.

Woodpeckers, goldfinches, juncos, cardinals, thrushes, jays, kinglets, bluebirds, wrens, and starlings are all known to favor suet-based bird feeders"

 
By Carol in PA (Guest Post)
May 3, 20060 found this helpful

If you ask the butcher at the grocery store, he/she will either give or charge you a small price for suet. I use the grease left over from cooking hamburger or bacon instead.

 

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