Anyone know a recipe for a suet feeding for squirrels using butter? I have the wire suet feeder?

Question

Anyone know a recipe for a suet feeding for squirrels using butter? I have the wire suet feeder?

Answer 1

Hmm...butter? That would probably melt or go rancid. Maybe you could use lard/shortening or even peanutbutter?



Here are a few recipes....you know that the squirrels will love anything intended for the birds ;)  

By the way, if you can't find suet, you can use vegetable shortening.

Soft Suet Medley

4 1/2 cups ground fresh suet

  3/4 cup dried and fine ground bakery goods

      (whole-wheat or cracked-wheat bread or crackers are best)

  1/2 cup shelled sunflower seeds

  1/4 cup millet

  1/4 cup dried and chopped fruit (currants, raisins, or berries)

  3/4 cup dried and fine ground meat (optional)

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.

Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.

Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.

Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.

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Hard Suet Tidbit Cakes

  1/2 lb. fresh ground suet

  1/3 cup sunflower seed

  2/3 cup wild bird seed (mix)

  1/8 cup chopped peanuts

  1/4 cup raisins

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly, then reheat it.

Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.

Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.

Pour into pie pan or form, or pack into suet feeders.

Optional or substitute ingredients: millet (or other birdseed), cornmeal, cooked noodles, chopped berries, dried fruit.

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Soft Peanut Butter Mix

    1 cup fresh ground suet

    1 cup peanut butter

    3 cups yellow corn meal

  1/2 cup white or whole-wheat flour

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.

Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.

Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.

Allow the suet-peanut-butter blend to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.

Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.

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Hard Peanut Butter Mix #1

    2 pounds fresh ground suet

  1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter

  1/2 cup coarse-chopped shelled sunflower seeds

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.

Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.

Stir in the sunflower seeds. Mix thoroughly.

Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan and cool

Cut into cakes that fit suet feeder

Individually wrap the remaining cakes and store in freezer

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Hard Peanut Butter Mix #2

    2 cup fresh ground suet

    1 cup peanut butter

    2 cups yellow corn meal

    2 cups fine cracked corn

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly; then reheat it.

Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.

Add dry ingredients to the suet-peanut-butter blend, and mix well.

Pour into forms or suet-feeders, and cool until hardened.

Answer 2

You can't use butter. Butter will melt at ROOM temperature -- outside, it'll be grease in seconds. Use lard or SHORTENING.