What you need makes several 1 cup of bird seeds.
Making bird feeders lard. Mixing together the dry ingredients. Mix all your dry ingredients. Melt some lard or suet in a pan and add the dry mix. The lard is quite useful to the birds in winter as it is an excellent source of calories for them.
For the bird seed we recommend buying a small seed mixture. Melt the lard in a pan over low heat. 2 tablespoons honey optional instructions for both recipes. Suet cake recipe 1.
The shortening would melt and go bad in warmer months. Melt shorting or lard and add 1 2 cup. Half a pack of lard or suet. How to make a bird feeder making a lard feeder poke a hole in the bottom of a yogurt pot and pull a string through it.
The best ratio for this recipe is one part fat to two parts dry mixture. Millet and pinhead oatmeal will help a wide range of birds like sparrow and finches and if you have tits in your garden then they ll enjoy sunflower seeds. Spoon the mixture into the yogurt pot and wait for it to cool down. Cookie cutters or mini round cake pan.
Suet cake recipe 2. 1 pound melted fat beef fat or lard 1 cup sunflower seeds. How to make fat cakes for birds. For the fat use vegetable fat or lard we used trex.
For a warmer weather homemade bird seed feeder try these made from toilet paper rolls. Add one 1 1 1 4 cups of bird seed to a bowl. Stirring in the melted fat with the dry ingredients. When i have enough i then melt it down and make a seed cake with it.
But instead of lard what i do is simply keep a plastic container in my fridge into which gets poured every bit of fat from the frying or oven pans when i cook.