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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C8530B.100DBAA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A pound of lard, maybe a cup of peanut butter, a handful of corn meal = and a handful of oatmeal... add raisins if you like, or small = birdseed... I mix this to a chunky consistency, and use in birch log = feeders. The grains help to keep the stuff pasty when the sun wants to = melt the lard. Suet is expensive. Gloria ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Randy Lauff=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:34 PM Subject: [NatureNS] suet with flour - oops Normally I buy my suet several kilos at a time from our butcher - it's = quite a bit cheaper, though there is some work to get it to the birds = (rendering, dispensing into the drilled logs, etc). Horror of horrors, = our butcher was sold out, so two days ago, I resorted to buying one of = those suet squares (some sort of cherry flavour). To get this into my = suet logs, I had to melt it down, and was surprised to find how little = suet there really was in that square...it was mostly seeds (millet, = cracked corn) and cherry fragments. These are not exactly the things = typical suet feeders are eating (I've never seen a chickadee, nuthatch = or woodpecker on my cracked corn, and I don't recall them feeding on = millet when I used to feed them that...of course, Blue Jays will eat = essentially anything).=20 Well, that was just a comment, but I found a bag of suet in the = meantime in the grocery store, but when I got it home, realized it was = Beef Suet (good) with Wheat Flour. This product is from Maple Leaf. Has = anyone used it (for feeding the birds)? Comments? Off hand, I don't = think the flour would be a bad thing for the birds...there's starch in = seeds (some with much more than others) but I'm still curious if = anyone's used it or not. The good news is the butcher is expecting the = real stuff on Monday...but I've got to get through the weekend.=20 =20 Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C8530B.100DBAA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3243" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A pound of lard, maybe a cup of peanut = butter, a=20 handful of corn meal and a handful of oatmeal... add raisins if you = like, or=20 small birdseed... I mix this to a chunky consistency, and use in birch = log=20 feeders. The grains help to keep the stuff pasty when the sun wants to = melt the=20 lard. Suet is expensive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Gloria</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Drandy.lauff@gmail.com = href=3D"mailto:randy.lauff@gmail.com">Randy=20 Lauff</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 09, = 2008 9:34=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] suet with = flour -=20 oops</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Normally I buy my suet several kilos at a time from our butcher - = it's=20 quite a bit cheaper, though there is some work to get it to the birds=20 (rendering, dispensing into the drilled logs, etc). Horror of horrors, = our=20 butcher was sold out, so two days ago, I resorted to buying one of = those suet=20 squares (some sort of cherry flavour). To get this into my suet = logs, I=20 had to melt it down, and was surprised to find how little suet there = really=20 was in that square...it was mostly seeds (millet, cracked corn) and = cherry=20 fragments. These are not exactly the things typical suet feeders are = eating=20 (I've never seen a chickadee, nuthatch or woodpecker on my = cracked corn,=20 and I don't recall them feeding on millet when I used to feed them = that...of=20 course, Blue Jays will eat essentially anything). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, that was just a comment, but I found a bag of suet in the = meantime=20 in the grocery store, but when I got it home, realized it was Beef = Suet (good)=20 with Wheat Flour. This product is from Maple Leaf. Has anyone used it = (for=20 feeding the birds)? Comments? Off hand, I don't think the flour would = be a bad=20 thing for the birds...there's starch in seeds (some with much more = than=20 others) but I'm still curious if anyone's used it or not. The good = news is the=20 butcher is expecting the real stuff on Monday...but I've got to get = through=20 the weekend. = <BR> <BR>Randy<BR>_________________________________<BR>RF=20 Lauff<BR>Way in the boonies of<BR>Antigonish County, NS.=20 </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C8530B.100DBAA0--
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