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Do Birds Eat Butter?

Jestgar

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Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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For some reason I have the urge to clean today, and since it happens very rarely, I thought I should go with it. So I'm sorting through stuff in the freezer and I find this package of butter that says 'best by May 2009' (Hey! I said it happens rarely! Lay off!)

I threw one stick into the woods for the rats raccoons, but then I thought of my neighbor mixing suet and oatmeal for her bird feeders and figured if the birds like suet, they'd go for butter.

Hence my question, will the birds eat the butter, or will my neighbor show up at my door when she gets home asking my why there are three sticks of butter on her deck?

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kareng Grand Master
kareng
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Suet is meat fat. Some birds eat meat like bugs and spiders. I don't think they would eat dairy. The squirrels or raccoons might be attracted to eat. Tho we have starlings that seem to eat anything.

Forgot; suet doesn't go bad but butter would be rancid pretty fast.

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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sooooo..... you're saying that I should park my truck down the block and pretend not to be home for a while?

celiacprincess17 Newbie
celiacprincess17
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Or feign innocence...

kareng Grand Master
kareng
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It won't be long Jess. A raccoon will take those butter sticks away tonight. Coat them with pb to make sure.

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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Or feign innocence...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Jestgar Rising Star
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Butter is gone. I figure it couldn't have been my resident raccoon 'cause he was out there this morning scamming scraps of chicken feed. Had he recently consumed 3 sticks of butter, I doubt he'd be interested in poop-covered, compressed grain.

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jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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I find this package of butter that says 'best by May 2009' (Hey! I said it happens rarely! Lay off!)

Wait :unsure: If the butter had been in the freezer from around that expiration date, it should have been ok for you to eat? Right? I woulda eaten it :ph34r:

Anywho, hope the critter who did get to eat it enjoyed it :D

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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I think I tasted it once and it tasted like freezer burn. I guess I coulda baked with it or something, but I don't bake so much anymore.

GFinDC Veteran
GFinDC
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I think they usually put out suet in cold weather too, so it doesn't melt in the heat. The darn birds can be picky though. I feed them in the winter and early spring, but once it gets to be warm weather they are not that interested. Or maybe they just don't like the Betty Crocker cake mix muffins for some reason. Or maybe they just don't like the ones I made and put out for them. Birds are too smart for me...

jerseyangel Proficient
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I think I tasted it once and it tasted like freezer burn. I guess I coulda baked with it or something, but I don't bake so much anymore.

Freezer burned butter doesn't sound all that appetizing.......

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