On 12 Dec, 10:43, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article
, Dave
Hill writes

All the juice from cooking joints etc gets drained off into a bowl and
left to cool then the fat is used as part of our bird food mix,
Crumbed bread, crushed oats, mixed bird grain and seeds and melted
fat, dripping and what ever we have.
This is all mixed then packed into 2 liter pop bottles with the tops
cut off, when cold the bottles are cut off and the food block is put
into holders made of 1cm wire netting and hung inside 2 hanging
baskets hung on end to keep the larger birds off and to give the
smaller birds plenty of perching places to feed from.
Any stock left from the meat if it isn't used in cooking then it has
stale bread mixed into it and it is put out for the badgers and foxes.

Hoe do you ensure that the stale bread etc. doesn't encourage rats
David?
I did used to do the same with fat and suet but then saw a rat eating
the bits on the ground so stopped. I bought a hanging table, (just a
wooden frame with the wire mesh trained across the top) and put stuff on
there. Actually I got loads more blackbirds and thrushes than on a
hanging pole type feeder. They obviously like a flat surface when
feeding.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk



Can't be certain that no rats feed, but I put it out in the evening
and our Badger tends to come along between 7 and 9pm. we also have a
couple of ctas that visit looking for pickings so it has to be a case
of first come first served, and I know that by 10 pm the food is
always gone.
Blackbirds and thrushes are ground feeding birds, and not happy on a
bird table, especially if it swings.

David Hill
Abacus Nurseries