How to make Fat Balls for Garden Birds - No Heat Recipe

In this video we show how to make fat balls for garden birds. We use this no heat recipe to make fat balls at home when the weather is turning cold as they give a big energy boost to the wild birds.

The garden birds go mad for the home made fat balls in this recipe. It is easy to make your own fat balls from lard or suet and a fun thing for children to do and make their own.

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We use lard as the base for our fat balls recipe. It is very cheap to buy and has a high calorific value for the birds. You can heat the lard up but we prefer to mix it from room temperature as this was much safer for our son when he was small. If you mix by hand then it takes a few minutes longer but is great fun for children!

We add breadcrumbs and oats to bind the mixture together. Without these the balls would look messy and the bids would have a greater danger of getting fats on their feathers. The oats can be chopped on a board or cut to fine powder in a food blender. With these we find a generous mug of oats and a couple of slices of bread works well. If the mixture looks too wet then just add more. Any bread will do, even stale bread makes good breadcrumbs. An alternative might be to use stale or unwanted breakfast cereals?

We use a pre mixed bird seed. You can add to it with a variety of ingredients. If you are going to use fruit then just chop it up small and don't make too many balls as they will not store for as long. Why not try mealworms, unsalted peanuts, sunflower seeds or nyger seeds?

When mixed you can form this into any shape you choose. We have a feeders that takes balls of this size perfectly. You may wish to fill a coconut shell with the mixture or find another way to display it for the birds?

Have fun making these but please remember that they are a winter or cold weather feed. The birds will be grateful for the high energy supplement that these provide but will not like getting fats on their feathers when the weather warms up.

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Sunflower hearts that we use
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Suet pellets
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Niger seeds
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Peanuts
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