Aldi cheap bird feed

Snowc

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

magicbastarder

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

Half-cocked

It's a seed mix.

thebiglad

magicbastarder wrote: »

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

https://www.aldi.ie/c/specialbuys/dates/2018-02-22?sort=popular&q=%3Apopular%3AtransactionalStatus%3Atransactional%3AtransactionalStatus%3Anontransactional%3AclassProductType%3ABird+Tables+and+Feeders&lowerBound=0&upperBound=50&text=

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.

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

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.

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.

OpenYourEyes

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

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.

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!

New Home

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

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.

New Home

Ok, thanks for that S.

diomed

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

Lepidoptera

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

the_syco

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

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