Where to Buy Plain Suet?
Maria Rost Rublee
I moved about 40 miles south of DC and it's a real headache going to the
wild bird store -- it's about 25 miles from me. I can get everything I
need for regular feeding at the Walmart, except plain suet. When I buy
suet that has stuff added, the squirrels devour it.
Does anyone know of a place online I can buy plain suet? I found it at
the Wild Birds Unlimited store but they are theives -- they want $11
shipping for a $20 order.
Any pointers would be most appreciated! Thanks, Maria
Jerry Logan
mru...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu says...
trimming - then processed myself. This approach is very inexpensive.
Maria Rost Rublee
: I have asked at the local grocery store for the remains from meat
: trimming - then processed myself. This approach is very inexpensive.
Thanks for the tip. The only problem is I barely get time to pay my bills
and do the laundry and other basic housekeeping things -- if I had to make
suet, I'd never get around to it. If/when I ever go back to being a
student, this would be a good idea though.
Maria
Maria Rost Rublee
Found a place last night -- PetVetSupply.com The plain suet cakes are
only $1.22 and for 8 of them, shipping was about $4.50. Not bad at all
since at the wild bird store (which is too far away for me anyway), they
are $2.50 each.
Maria
Bob NS9G
<mru...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> writes:
Suet is beef fat but all beef fat is not good suet. What you need is the real
hard stuff like kidney fat. If there are any local abbatoirs, ask there. I get
all I want from Dewig's in Haubstadt, Indiana. There is little or no need to
process it. Just give it to the birds.
73/88 de Bob NS9G
R Bishop
You don't have to DO anything to the beef fat trimmings. Just stuff them into
the suet holder or put them in a mesh bag.
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>Maria
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Sue
"Never trust anything that thinks for itself,
if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
J K Rowlings
Nancy Santagata
That site is wonderful! (PetVetSupply.com) Things cost what they should
cost and shipping is a fair price. Thank you!
Nancy
jim gage
n.
The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in
cooking and for making tallow.
Try a local butcher.
--
Yours Truly
Jim
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MEAWE229
>The grocery store usually stocks it in the meat
>area.
And if you cannot find it, ask the butcher. He will gladly supply you with it.
I have purchased beef suet from our grocery store for years, and if I cannot
find it in the meat area, I ring the bell for the butcher, and he comes out, I
tell him what I need and whambo, I have it. He now will slip me frebies.
Maria Rost Rublee
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:>The grocery store usually stocks it in the meat
:>area.
And this suet is ready to go as is? I've always been told that you have
to "prepare" it somehow on the stove.
Maria
MEAWE229
>And this suet is ready to go as is? I've always been told that you have
>to "prepare" it somehow on the stove.
It is ready to put in your suet basket or however, you offer it. Yes, you can
melt it down and add cornmeal, peanut butter etc for homemade. I do not go to
all that work. In the hot summer I purchase the suet blocks from my co-op as it
does not melt nor spoil as quickly as the straight beef suet from the grocery.
I have a wire suet basket that I place mine in, however, I know of people who
just wire it to a block of wood and nail the block to a tree or put the block
on a pole. I purchase several packages at a time and then place them in the
freezer, They keep for sometime. Here in MN in the winter, the suet freezes
anyway, so I do not even thaw it out before putting it in the basket.
Woodpeckers, have no problem gobbling it all up. Good luck.
R Bishop
Maria Rost Rublee <mru...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:
>MEAWE229 <meaw...@aol.com> wrote:
>:>
>:>The grocery store usually stocks it in the meat
>:>area.
>
>: And if you cannot find it, ask the butcher. He will gladly supply you with it.
>: I have purchased beef suet from our grocery store for years, and if I cannot
>: find it in the meat area, I ring the bell for the butcher, and he comes out, I
>: tell him what I need and whambo, I have it. He now will slip me frebies.
>
>And this suet is ready to go as is? I've always been told that you have
>to "prepare" it somehow on the stove.
>
No, you don't need to do anything to it. Just hang it in a mesh bag where they
can find it.
JASON
1. buy (or get) at grocery store meat counter - get beef kidney suet
2. prepare by removing from the packaging and cut to size to fit your feeder.
3. put out for birds
4. watch birds
that is all there is to it.
I tried premade "cakes", no bird was interested at all! None! Zip!
birds found at suet feeder (also have pictures but this is not a binary newsgroup
right?)
white breasted nuthatchs
blackcap chickadees
chipping sparrows
tuftted titmice
bluejays
flickers (yellow shafted)
red bellied woodpeckers
hairy woodpeckers
downy woodpeckers (so many I was thinking about naming them as I can tell them apart
from each other - so they might as well have names)
And unfortunatly the occasional starling - but I am not complaining.
jason
MEAWE229
>1. buy (or get) at grocery store meat counter - get beef kidney suet
>
Right, don't know about the "kidney", I just ask for straight beef suet, just
today the butcher had about 30 prepackaged in the counter and all were marked
"Beef Suet For Birds".
>2. prepare by removing from the packaging and cut to size to fit your feeder.
Also correct, sometimes they are rather large so you cut to fit whatever, I do
not use a feeder, nor a basket, threw my basket away, they prefer it on top of
a block of wood, my husband made, it is held on with wire. But whatever you
use, if it works fine.
Number 3, and 4 also correct.
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>I tried premade "cakes", no bird was interested at all! None! Zip!
>
I also did this, waste of my time, energy doing it and money. Therefore plain
old beef suet from your grocery. Same with the cakes you can buy at Wal Mart,
etc. I can get a package of beef suet, at the grocery, large package, I have to
cut in half, for 80 cents. Lasts the birds in the winter quite awhile. At a
wild bird, Wal Mart etc I would pay $1.70 or even higher for one cake, and it
lasts forever, because the birds wont go near it.
I have the following at the suet:
WB nuthatchers
blackcap chickadees
red Belly woodpeckers
downy woodpeckers
hairy woodpeckers
A few Blue Jays, they usually prefer my peanuts and ground food.
Lately, the starlings also.
Maria Rost Rublee
suet. Now, the birds around here do like the plain suet and the peanut
butter suet -- red-bellied woodpeckers, downies, hairies, chickadees, blue
jays, crows, titmice, carolina wrens (peanut suet only), etc. But if they
like the cheap stuff from the butcher, that's even better! maria