Soaking white bread (1 Viewer)

It's all very well soaking white bread before putting it out but with the temps below freezing 24hrs a day it is pointless. Even the water bowl starts to freeze minutes after changing it.

If the French bread is bullet hard can you put it out without soaking? If not, will have to throw it away.

Capt Beekee said:

It's all very well soaking white bread before putting it out but with the temps below freezing 24hrs a day it is pointless. Even the water bowl starts to freeze minutes after changing it.

If the French bread is bullet hard can you put it out without soaking? If not, will have to throw it away.

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If you have a food processor or blender whizz it inyo bread crumbs,you can feed it on its own or better still mix it with lard and bird seed.
Malcolm

With bread it has very little nutrional value for birds and does not really help them with energy and warmth. You would be much better with currants, sultanas etc fruit and seed and of course fat balls.

Here is a bit I found with regards to bread


"Bread, they say, holds little nutritional value for birds, is a waste of their digestive juices and fills them up without doing them any good. Instead, those serious about dishing out treats should choose grated cheese, leftover jacket potatoes, breakfast cereals, crumbled biscuits and even cake.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) also recommends porridge oats, overripe strawberries, rice or scraps of pastry. Val Osborne, the RSPB’s head of wildlife inquiries, said: “There are many other household foods that would be much better for them. Bread doesn’t actually contain any of the vital ingredients to provide birds with the energy they need to breed and feed. The RSPB is asking people to consider alternatives such as porridge oats, cake crumbs and potatoes"

Just to say that I get bread at Tesco that is Wholemeal and full of whole mixed seeds, that the birds seem to like. A slight problem is it's quite expensive.

" Porridge Oats ". Isn't that what they'd otherwise call " Rolled " or " Crushed " oats? Available in agricultural stores for a few quid a huge sack.

Woman I knew used to get a sack in and feed a flock of Chaffie's that'd make Hitchcock wince. She wasn't exactly free and easy with the munge either, so it must've been cheaper than good dirt.

Only thing was; She also built herself up one of the biggest rat infestations I've ever seen outside of an old fashioned pig farm! :eek!:

She doesn't live there any more. Got turfed out. No one lives there now. Probably just a hoard of rats. Living off a vast flock of slowly starving chaffinches. Waiting .....