Make winter food for blackbirds yourself

This is how the winter feed is made

Blackbirds are so-called soft-feed eaters, which are largely made up of small ones insects and feed worms. With large-grain feed mixes, you cannot provide them with a basic nutritional basis. For this reason, when buying a grain mix, make sure that it is made for soft feeders.

1. To get the necessary animal protein in the blackbird's winter feed, use beef tallow as a base. You can buy this in slaughterhouses or at the meat counter, for example. Be careful not to add any sebum spices or salt has been added.
2. Put the sebum in a saucepan and heat it so that it becomes liquid.
3. Then remove the pot from the hot plate.
4. Then pour the purchased winter feed mixture for soft feeders to the sebum. The right amount is easy to determine: the birdseed should weigh as much as the beef suet so that the blackbirds get an appealing mixture.


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5. Then stir the mixture thoroughly so that the purchased feed mixture is well distributed in the beef tallow.

You can also prepare one yourself instead of a purchased feed mix. To do this, take, for example, raisins, oat flakes, boiled rice, elderberries and rose hips in equal parts and proceed as described.

Feed the blackbirds

Save yourself the work of forming dumplings for the birds from the sebum, because soft-feeders prefer to take their food from the ground.

• You can put the still warm winter feed mixture in a shallow bowl and let it cool down in it. Then just put it outside.
• It is also possible to let the self-made winter food harden directly in the saucepan. Then remove individual small flakes with a teaspoon and sprinkle them on yours, for example terrace.
• Make sure that you choose a relatively shady place to feed the blackbirds, as excessive sunlight would make the sebum liquid again and turn rancid more quickly.