![]() ![]() She lives in rural Iowa with her husband, children, and parents on their multi-generational family farm. Kayla Lobermeier is an author, blogger, recipe developer, photographer, homesteader, and co-owner of the brand Under A Tin Roof with her mother, Jill Haupt. We love to feed suet and coarse seeds to our chickens during the winter as well! As their body works to break down the hard seeds, they create more heat and stay warmer. Suet is wonderful for birds! In the winter, food sources are often scarce, and the fat and seeds help them to generate body heat. All of these can be purchased at most grocery stores, hardware or outdoor stores, or garden centers. Other ingredients often mixed into suet is grains, seeds, dried fruits, and dried insects. You can learn how to render lard from pigs in this blog post. It will need to be rendered fat, which means that you cook it down and remove any of the meat or bones so that only the fat is left behind. Historically, these are more of a winter project, but I recently found our bird feeder and felt that it needed to be put back together!Īny animal fat works, so it can be a good project to keep in mind when trimming up your meat or saving the fat drippings. Suet is simply animal fat rendered fat mixed with other bird-friendly ingredients to make little hard cakes. Now they have gone and traveled elsewhere, and all of the songbirds have returned. I am sure that is true of the country anywhere in the world! I had never seen a bald eagle in person until living in Iowa, and we have about three eagles that live in the trees at our farm every winter. Obviously I managed to get over my fear of birds as I have been raising chickens for over seven years! Living in the Iowa countryside, it’s difficult to not notice the amazing wildlife, especially the little bird communities, all around us. Now that I am grown, I have found myself in recent years wanting to spend more time watching the birds myself. One of her favorite birds is the Baltimore Oriole, which is attracted to grape jelly! My grandmas are avid bird watchers, and their yard has been filled with various feeders, birdhouses, and contraptions for as long as I can remember. Do you enjoy feeding and watching the birds? As a child, I was absolutely terrified of wild birds, but I did love helping my grandmas fill their bird feeders. ![]()
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