How to Make Suet (to Attract Birds)

Gardener Scott
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Published 2020-02-25
You can make suet at home to attract birds. Homemade suet is easy, inexpensive, and can be modified to benefit the birds in your garden. A simple mix of fat, ground grains, nuts, and seeds can provide beneficial birds with the food and nutrition they need during cold months. (Video #131)

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All Comments (21)
  • @mancavegamingandgardening9901
    Hit the nail on the head with those reasons to keep the birds around! In my area we have a particularly skittish woodpecker who will not fly down to our suet feeders; I decided to climb up his tree and smear homemade suet into some holes and grooves in the tree, the little guy loves it! Good gardening, and good birdwatching!
  • @stuartmasse8249
    Great recipe. I am using large pine cones then mixing the bird seed with peanut butter and mashing it into the cone. The birds love it.
  • @emmadalrymple4102
    I have been making my own suet for several years now, and I hope more people follow suit. It is so incredibly easy to prepare! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
  • @noralazo6944
    The ingredients are easy to find and very simple to make. Now I can start helping the birds find food during winter. Thank you, for this video.
  • @carolstella6776
    Buy the suet in the store that comes in the plastic trays and you can later use them for molds. They are very inexpensive.
  • @PrettyAliceNight
    Thanks so much for sharing this! I used to buy suet when it was on sale but even then it got to be out of my budget so I had to stop. Now I can make my own! I love that you can customize the recipe too.
  • @yes350yes
    I always enjoy making my own homemade suet. Sometimes I will cheat and buy and couple premade suet cakes to melt them down then add my own mix. Some people say they find natural no salt crunchy, but where I live settle for the natural even though it has salt in it , not my preference. I try to make it as natural as possible with ingredients I have.
  • @sandan2358
    We are making suet for the first time this winter.
  • @RickyPisano
    We have a ton of different species here in S.E Tennessee. I have a nice buffet for the birds here and they've gotten very used to my wife and I. We love them all. I've been buying the suet but not anymore!! Thanks Scott!! Great video!!
  • @DSesignD
    My birds up here in the north east LOVE suet with chili pepper. As far as benefits for gardeners, a regular bird feeder can pay dividends as well, birds are all over my garden in the morning, and they aren't eating my produce. So it's safe to say whatever they're doing in there it's not hurting and probably benefiting.
  • @Mrpurple75
    When I was in grade school we made suet with a small milk carton, bird seed, and PVA glue. The glue was made with water, flour, and sugar. Your recipe is more interesting
  • @tennesseenana4838
    I've just been buying suet cakes at Walmart - $1.30/each. Never thought about making them myself. Anyway, I have 2 of the suet feeders hanging on my hummingbird feeder hooks near the house this winter. The hummers won't arrive back here until April or May. It's so fun to see the different birds eating them.
  • @freedomflyer6650
    Everytime we make bacon we pour the fat off into a container and dd a handful of bird seed. We store it in the fridge and when it ifull to the top we put it out for the birds. We also grow several wild flower garden beds all around our property. Then in the Spring , Summer and Fall it encourage bee and butterfly activity , It truly is a living Garden!
  • @pamjones7632
    I have a variety of birds in my neighborhood. Cardinal, humming, woodpeckers, cranes so many others. I also have a bad squirrel and mole problem.
  • @jesusisGod1434
    We make our own suet too, but I let it set up in a bread pan and make sections with aluminum foil. No hand forming, beside I’m allergic to peanuts. I don’t use the wild bird seed mix as it holds far to many weed seeds those birds will plant in my garden. I only use the sunflower black oil seeds.
  • @OakKnobFarm
    Awesome recipe Scott! I'm looking for my suet basket as soon as this video is done. My personal plans: Store bought peanut butter. Our own saved fat. Grains from crushed chicken pellet feed. Seeds from my chicken scratch. I think I have everything I need!
  • @donnaq7626
    I add chopped oats. The birds can not get enough of it.