I made a blend with sunflower oil and habenero sauce (added a lot more than they said) and the squirrels still ate the seeds. How is this better? (I sure hope so, the squirrels are turning me in to a screaming, broom waving nut!
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we too tried varied ingredients but to no avail- it is not quite like a copycat recipe--- it is more like having to have the actual Cocacola or DRPepper recipe- it's the real deal or it's not--- save yourself time and aggravation and just buy the product, follow the directions, sit back and enjoy the songs/colors of the birds----- we also paint woodpecker suet blocks w/this product-
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Hi Leanne, Thanks for your question. In response, we always recommend Black Oil Sunflower Seed as we've found it to work best with the "Skinny Squirrel" bird feeders. However, many of our customers have reported using a wide variety of other types of seed, with good results. Hope this helps.. If you have any other questions, just let me know.. Have a blessed day, Mark
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I have had squirrels come into the feeder and eat the birdseed, so I started getting raw peanuts in addition to birdseed, but they have never chewed on the feeder itself. I also had to weight down the stopper which started blowing off in high winds, but I just put something heavyish on top, or you could create a hinge out of duct tape or something like that. It is wood, so it will expand and contract slightly with differences in temperature.
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I have not noticed mess much as their heads stay mostly inside of the covered "house" area while they eat. With squirrels though, if they get all the way inside and sit and eat (I had just 1 do this), then they drop some of the larger seed shells, like sunflower, on the lower window ledge.
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I never thought about using the flax seed this way since it's so bland alone, however your snack idea sounds yummy. Or yogurt also sounds delicious.....But thanks for the snack tip!!
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Peanut pieces will work, full peanuts probably will not. We use a bird seed mix of white stripe sunflower, black oil sunflower, peanut pieces and mullet, which does not jam the feeder. We are on our third feeder of this style. As mentioned in other answers squirrels will try to get to it, keep it well away from trees. Weakest link is the plastic feed tube and the lack of good drainage. It should be emptied and cleaned monthly. We keep one in service and another one cleaned ready to hang. We get a large variety of birds year round.
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i have tried a lot of different seed. 1. sunflower words well but makes makes mess as does golden safflower seed or niger seed. 2. with inexpensive seed mix there is a lot of millet which many birds ignore so the feed tray will fill up with seed and shell no one eats. 3. I use something called meaties. it costs s little more ususally but birds like it and less mess.
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I've had squirrels get in mine, but nothing has ever happened except for eating all the food. Never chewed on the feeder. I've also been putting peanuts out to keep them away from the bird seed.
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It took a few days for the birds to get used to it, but all I put in it is sunflower seeds and the birds LOVE it. I finally have my titmouse birds back and lots of chickadees, plus juncos and sparrows. Many others too, but what I like is the squirrels can't get the seed!
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It doesn't seem to be a problem-the birds eat it fairly quick and usually I am refilling within 5-7 days. It is quite comical to watch a squirrel that got a hold of some treated seeds. He will jump, run in circles, dig and eat the dirt to get rid of the taste, etc and then take off.
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I just fill a medium-sized mixing bowl 2/3 full and stir with a serving spoon until all the seed is nicely coated. I wind up using about 3 serving spoons of the product. But you can start with 1 or 2 spoonfuls and add more until you get the result you seek. We have found this product to be wonderfully effective at deterring squirrels and all the other rodents and mammals that the Pacific Northwest has to offer, and we have *not* needed to coat the seed until it's anywhere near sopping wet!
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First of all, squirrels bring to an area...a rat's favorite food, PEANUTS. That being said, I haven't noticed a lack of squirrels in my yard and I have this stuff out 24/7 My last application has been in place for about 5 months with out being touched by any critter. That is just what I wanted.
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Not that I have experienced, I use black sunflower seeds and some always fall on the ground when refilling, Mine is at eye level which for me would be about 5 feet. Really no way for the squirrels to access it, once or twice when I've been out there filling it up the squirrels have come up and said hello :) and scampered across my bare feet.
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Just about any seed that's not to large, the fruit seed and nut seed that come in some of the mixed seeds do have a tendency to get stuck in the feeder and have to be taken out, but still no real problem. I laugh at the squirrels as they try to get at the feed. If it is hung as suggested they are unable to get the feed.
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Yup, my Squirrels empty the Peanut Wreath within several hours. What they have been doing is taking one then burying it for the winter, then going back to eat one. It's a vicious cycle :)I bought it for the Squirrels anyway... hoping it will deter them from my bird feeders. I have seen birds feeding from the peanuts though, just not very many.
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I don't know, but the squirrels ate one of ports out so he used kids plastic egg,cut in half, attached with glue gun and it fine now, we now have a family of coons robbing all bird feeders, do you have a solution for that?
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I think it would be effective on squirrels, but we also have many birds at our bird feeder and we don't want to disturb the birds. Both eat in the daytime. We have caught squirrels in a live trap and moved them to another wooded place. We make bait with peanut butter smeared on a piece of thick paper and press sunflower seeds into the peanut butter. We call it "Annie bait" because our 8-year old granddaughter, Annie, came up with the idea. Take the squirrels away at least 3 miles or they may return.