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What do you feed your birds?

  • 16-09-2012 09:24PM
    #1
    supernova84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭


    There is a bird who comes to my backdoor everyday and I give it some breadcrumbs. What do you feed your bird?


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  • #2
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Donner kebab... for me burds.

    /Dublin


  • #3
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Sunflower seeds, nijer seeds, ground up peanuts, huskfree advance bird mix from Haiths.


  • #4
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    bread. im old skool


  • #5
    wyndham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Custard Creams. They also like bourbons and chocolate hobnobs. Crush them up for them.
    I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing.
    And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it


  • #6
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Cock.


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  • #7
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    She can have a few of my curry chips if she is really lucky.


  • #8
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,089 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    She just has the same dinner as the rest of us....maybe a bit of pork at the weekends


  • #9
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Bread is really bad for birds, it gives them fatty liver and their little digestive systems can't handle the additives.

    Not that it's great for humans either but I won't open than can of worms. (pun!)


  • #10
    WumBuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭WumBuster


    few ssusages and rashers then a taxi home


  • #11
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous well being. And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it.


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  • #12
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Lead pellets.


  • #13
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Insert generic joke about girlfriend here whilst thinking I'm totally hilarious and original.

    Jokes on you...

    I DON'T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND!

    Please kill me...


  • #14
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Really wouldn't go feeding them, our cats kill enough as is.


  • #15
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    wyndham wrote: »
    Custard Creams. They also like bourbons and chocolate hobnobs. Crush them up for them.
    I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing.
    And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it

    It's got nothing to do with vorsprung durch technic you know


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,314 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Sage and onion, it saves a lot of time later.


  • #17
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Usually peanuts or whatever's in the bag of bird food.


  • #18
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Ever more elaborate lies, due to my double life as a mild-mannered chemistry teacher and family man / meth cook.


  • #19
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Small chunks of soft white fresh bread wrapped around thumb-tacks.

    At the crack of dawn I awake and create 50 of theses beauties.

    Go out to my 2nd floor balcony with my breakfast consisting of whiskey and woodbines.

    It begins.


  • #20
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    All the Birds around here like Gin and big Cocks, apparently.


  • #21
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Bread is really bad for birds, it gives them fatty liver and their little digestive systems can't handle the additives.

    Fook them. Freeloading, delicate cunts.


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  • #22
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    I don't need to feed them anything, Robbie the Robin is always stealing from the dog.


  • #23
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Waldorf Salad.

    Some posh birds round our way.


  • #24
    browner85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭browner85


    im old school ................. she feeds me!!!!


  • #25
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The back of my place is polluted with cats so I would only be luring the birds into certain death. I plan to move and set up challenges for crows to test their smarts.


  • #26
    dermiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭dermiek


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    Small chunks of soft white fresh bread wrapped around thumb-tacks.

    At the crack of dawn I awake and create 50 of theses beauties.

    Go out to my 2nd floor balcony with my breakfast consisting of whiskey and woodbines.

    It begins.


    Way to go, Father Jack!!!


  • #27
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006




  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bird feed, i even give them a bath out the back too.


  • #29
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Why feed them?

    They should do their own damn foraging/hunting. :P In the winter? The smart birds fly to warmer climates, feeding birds in the winter would reward stupidity.


  • #30
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Rohypnol.


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  • #31
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    get one of those "seed balls" in a pet store, and hang it somewhere in your garden - they love eating the seeds from it - also, don't forget a little bowl of water for them.


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