bread crumbsWhat are some 'household food items' that are good to feed birds, squirrels, wildlife, etc. ??
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Any bread, cereal products etc. Outdated (but not disgusting) produce, our deer will eat left over spaghetti even!
breakfast cereal. When the kids were little, they'd string Cheerios on yarn and hang it from the trees for the birds.
We tried with carrot, nuts, cabbage, corn, wheat, rice ... for white pegions, rabbits, tortoise ... they like them very much ... some times they snatch from your hand for more food. Even tortoise comes out from the shell to drag the cabbage from our hands ...
Bread,corn, and nuts. NOT RICE OR GRITS. HAHA!
Birds like bread if you rip it up in small pieces.
Unsalted seeds or nuts, bread, fresh vegies like carrots, romaine lettuce or apples. Never feed birds rice...they say it'll swell in their belly and possibly kill them. I'd probably just pick up a big bag of seeds from the store that are mixed esp. for wildlife. They are pretty cheap. They also sell whole corncobs for squirells that you hang on a tree. My mother used to have this thing that had four arms like an x attached to a wheel with corn attached to each end of the arms and it would spin when the squirell would jump on. It was crazy to watch them latched on a spinning for a bite of corn..but now that I think of it...that may be kinda mean I guess.
Sunflower seeds
Go to any large supermarket and check as to when they throw away there bread. Many such places do not have secure dumpsters and you can collect a ton of bread which is perfectly good. I do it for my birds out back and they are all fat, my squirrels love it also. Also: Squirrels love peanut butter a treat!
Popcorn,orange peels,peanuts,potato and carrot peelings.There are alot of things you can put out for the wildlife.
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