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| Please phone, fax, email, or mail your orders for bird seed to us. |
| All of our individual seeds and seed mixes are milled and bagged weekly, assuring that the customer receives the freshest, high-quality seeds available. Desert Blend and Finch Mix have an additional coating of canola oil to preserve and enhance each seed in the mix. If you would like a custom blend made to your specifications, feel free to contact us and tell us exactly what you would like. To feed insect and nut eating birds, see our Nuts 'n' Bugs page. |
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Desert Blend - Our best selling all seed, no waste mix was created with cardinals in mind, although all seed eating birds enjoy this blend. 100% usable, this blend contains no chaff, dust, or other unusable ingredients. By weight, the blend is composed of 40% black oil sunflower, and 10% each of safflower, white proso millet, golden brown German millet and canary seed. All the seeds are lightly coated with canola oil, which protects and preserves the seeds naturally. Regardless of which region in the country you live, you'll find your birds will prefer Desert Blend over all others.
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Black Oil Sunflower Seed - The basic staple and favorite individual seed preferred by about 70% of the seed eating birds. This seed is packed with nutritious oils, proteins, fat and carbohydrates that wild birds need. This domestic seed is grown in Colorado and features a thin shell that all seed eating birds can easily crack open. Especially attracted to this seed are the finches, Cardinals, Pyrrhuloxia, and grosbeaks.
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Safflower - This seed is preferred by Cardinals in particular and is widely used in regions where squirrels are problematic. Squirrels and other rodents find the taste of this high oil seed disagreeable and thereby tend to leave it alone. Grown in Utah.
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Peanut Kernels - First quality peanut kernels are raw and unsalted for use by wild birds. A favorite food for a wide variety of nut eating birds including, but not limited to: woodpeckers, flickers and sapsuckers; Clark's Nutcracker's; Cardinals and Pyrrhuloxia; nuthatches; wrens; titmice; chickadees; thrashers; jays and others. Grown in New Mexico.
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Nyjer Thistle - The seed of choice for the goldfinch family members especially. Nyjer thistle is one of the more expensive seeds for wild birds due to the fact that it is grown in countries like Ethiopia, China, India, Burma, and Nepal. It is usually a wild seed which is hand harvested. Additionally, it needs to be shipped to the US market from points halfway around the globe and, lastly, has to be sterilized to enter the US - as it is considered a pest plant in the Americas. But it still is the most effective for attracting goldfinches and Pine Siskins.
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Hemp Seed - This seed was the basic seed in most bird mixes until the 1930's, when prohibition prevented the domestic growing of this seed. Hartz Mountain used it extensively in its bird seed mixes while it was a domestically grown product. Until recently, and like the Nyjer Thistle, it was grown in distant countries and was also an expensive seed for the same reasons. Now, however, Canadian farmers have recently begun growing this popular seed and the prices are beginning to come down. Use Hemp either by itself in a feeder or mix it into other blends for added variety. Cardinals and grosbeaks relish this seed. Hemp is a very nutritious food for birds as it is high in fat, and the oil from the seed is rich in protein, carbohydrates and other trace elements which high energy wild birds need.
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