"Snooze" wrote in
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"enigma" wrote in message
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the cheaper stuff is mostly millet. if what you want to
attract is sparrows & pigeons, get the cheap stuff. if you
want cardinals, grosbeaks, juncos, nuthatches, etc, get
the more expensive blends with no millet. look at the
types of seed the birds you want to attract prefer, & buy
that. lee

I can get thistle and oil sunflower seeds for a whole lot
less then $2 per pound, which is how much the seed mix the
original poster was asking about. That's well above the rip
off price rate.

i buy a blend of grey sunflower, black oil sunflower,
safflower, peanut (it has hazelnut, pistachio & a few other
seeds & nuts). no millet. it costs me .64 per pound. the birds
i feed don't eat the millet & i was tired of the mound of
rotting millet on the ground under the feeders (the chickens
might eat the millet, but i don't particularly like them
eating under the feeders where they can get diseases from wild
birds...). i buy thistle seperately & i don't remember how
much that is, as the goldfinches, house & purple finches seem
to like the blend more so i don't buy thistle more than
once/year.

Perhaps you would like to produce a convincing argument as
to why $2 per pound is a good buy, especially if it's going
to have a consumption rate of 2-3 lbs per day.

i don't particularly think that's a good price, but i buy my
birdseed at the feed store when i'm buying feed for the
livestock. i also can get a substantial discount if i preorder
my birdseed in the fall. perhaps the OP lives in a city & buys
at the grocery store. that kind of 'convenience' tends to have
a high price.
also, consumption rate may be including waste rate, which IME
is *much* higher when using millet blends.

My feeder gets a mix of finches, cardinals and chickadees
using a mix that about 50% millet.

but how much of that millet are you shoveling off the lawn in
the spring?
lee
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