Can birds choke on peanut butter?
There’s no evidence that birds can choke on peanut butter. However, birds have no salivary glands. You can make it easier on them by mixing peanut butter with lard, cornmeal, and/or grit. Your birds will appreciate drinking water, too — a bird bath or trough. Do wild birds need grit? In the winter, you may see flocks of birds along roadsides after the snowplows have passed. They’re after the grit. Birds have no teeth to grind their food. The dirt, sand, pebbles, and grit they eat sits in their crop and helps grind up their food. Adding grit to your feeder is helpful year-round, but particularly in the winter and spring. Crushed eggshells do the same thing, and in the spring have an added benefit. They provide extra calcium during nesting season. Won’t suet go “bad” in the summer? In the winter, raw beef fat from the local butcher is all you need for your suet feeder. When temperatures rise, raw fat can melt, and get rancid. It’s safer to use commercially rendered suet cakes in the spr
Theres no evidence that birds can choke on peanut butter. However, birds have no salivary glands. You can make it easier on them by mixing peanut butter with lard, cornmeal, and/or grit. Your birds would appreciate drinking water too – a bird bath or trough. Do wild birds need grit? In the winter, you may see flocks of birds along roadsides after the snowplows have passed. Theyre after the grit. Birds have no teeth to grind their food. The dirt, sand, pebbles, and grit they eat sits in their crop and helps grind up their food. Although there is plenty of natural grit available, some people add grit to their feeders. Crushed eggshells do the same thing and in the spring have an added benefit. They provide extra calcium during the nesting season. How close to your window can you put a feeder? Birds will come right to your window. Sometimes it takes a while for them to overcome their initial reluctance, so be patient. Dont worry that a feeder on the window will cause birds to fly into the
