Butcher suet

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  1. Kildale

    Kildale Nature's Window

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    A cheap feed for the birds that eat the suet blocks is straight suet from the butcher. Just push pieces into your suet cage. Its usually free or perhaps 5 cents.

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    Thought I would add this picture from today. The birds really go for the suet from the butchers.

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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    We're off to the butchers next week so I'll ask if they can give me some suet. If my birds are anything like yours they'll thoroughly enjoy it.
     
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    I have pictures of many other birds eating it.
     



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    Frank GardenStew Founder Staff Member Administrator

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    That suet looks like a real hit with the birds judging by the second photo.
     
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    Is this what it's called? I've been buying these cheap chunks of fat from our local Cub store as it's labeled "beef suet", and when I asked the butcher about it he said it's fat from around the kidney of the cow. I tried it and the birds love it!

    I wonder if it's commonly available in grocery stores- you just have to look in the corners of the frozen weird section or something. That's where I find butcher's suet here.

    The pileated woodpeckers LOVE it!

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