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Aldi cheap bird feed

  • 21-02-2018 8:00pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭


    Looking at the weather forum we are in for a very cold spell of weather from Sunday and I noticed today that aldi are doing bird feed tomorrow at a very cheap price compared to most shops around so a perfect time to stock up on it:D


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,665 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    link? is it seed, fat balls, ...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    It's a seed mix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    My experience with cheaper seed mixtures is that they contain lots of wheat, and the birds I get in my garden at least don't seem to care for it, so it gets left behind in the ground feeders and discarded onto the ground below the feeders where it builds up and needs to be removed. I see that wheat is the first ingredient on the list, so possibly the largest component too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Snowc


    Was thinking more the sunflower hearts and suet treats which are a third of the price than some of the local shops are charging,also could a moderator post a link in the weather forum to this thread if it is possible thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I got some of the suet treats yesterday, seemed like decent value. The seed mix I get has a large proportion of black sunflower seeds so don't need to get the hearts. Personally I find the hearts, or the 'no mess' varieties of seed mix that contain them, to be not great when weather is very wet and damp as they tend to go a bit 'claggy' and bung up the feeders.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Bastid magpies keep landing on my bird feeders and rattling at them.one fukr bored a hole in the mesh.going to have to go Tony soprano on the magpies soon.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    Bastid magpies keep landing on my bird feeders and rattling at them.one fukr bored a hole in the mesh.going to have to go Tony soprano on the magpies soon.

    It's best to remove the mesh as small birds can get feet and toes caught in them, and they can lose the toe/foot as a result.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    I used to stock up on Aldi birdfood every winter - the large sacks of mixed seed, and the tubs of fatballs. In the last year or so I've come to the realisation that they're quite poor. The seed is full of a lot of 'filler' seeds that are only really good for pigeons and maybe House Sparrows, and the fatballs are just generally poor.

    This year I've made my own fatballs from beef dropping (75c per block in tesco) and sunflower seeds (the small bags from Lidl) and they're very popular. I've also started buying quality rather than quantity - so that includes black sunflower seeds from Lidl, and sunflower hearts and nyger seed from other sources.

    I'd recommend people go for the quality over quantity when it comes to feeding garden birds, and making your own fatballs can be very cheap and easy and get much better results than the ones you buy!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Can butter be used instead of suet, or is it bad for the birds?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Can butter be used instead of suet, or is it bad for the birds?

    Not really. They can't digest lactose; it passes through them and can cause diarrhoea.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ok, thanks for that S.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I bought 200 kg of sunflower hearts on Monday.
    The pigeons demand it.
    The finches, tits, sparrows do alright as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭Lepidoptera


    I've gone through a massive amount of sunflower hearts and nyjer seed. The garden was covered in birds throughout today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,315 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    This year I've made my own fatballs from beef dropping (75c per block in tesco) and sunflower seeds (the small bags from Lidl) and they're very popular. I've also started buying quality rather than quantity - so that includes black sunflower seeds from Lidl, and sunflower hearts and nyger seed from other sources.
    Can you write up how you make it? My mum loves feeding the birds.

    Seems as the Aldi feeder is white, and gets covered in snow, my mam made the feeder below :)

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