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Sunflower hearts.. where's the best place to buy? (1 Viewer)
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bongofury
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12.75kg for £28 from Pets at Home.
http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/p...-treats/sunflower-hearts-wild-bird-food?i=72#
The offers vary and sometimes it's cheaper to buy smaller bags.
http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/p...-treats/sunflower-hearts-wild-bird-food?i=72#
The offers vary and sometimes it's cheaper to buy smaller bags.
NoSpringChicken
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barnstormer
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I pay £17.50 for a 12.5 kg sack locally in county Durham (Wheatley Hill) to be precice.
andydan
Well-known member
Goldfinches love Nyger seed.
I buy all my seed from my local corn stores.
I own chickens so I usually buy a lot of seed.
bongofury
Well-known member
Thanks for the link - ordered mine today. You can save 3.03% on the above price by using Topcashback. OK, so its only 90p, but every penny counts, as a certain large supermarket says. If you aren't a member of Topcashback, I would appreciate it if you signed up via my referral link:
http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/bongofury
bongofury
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Delivered today, good effort.
It may be worth it to be careful about buying bulk seeds.
If aimed for farm use, they may have been treated with fungicides, often mercury compounds, to improve their shelf life.
If there is any certifying authority that warrants clean seed, I'd like to learn about it.
stonechat1
New member
Etudiant, here in my country (Austria) that´s two different things.
Farmers don´t grow sunflowers which one buys for bird feeding. Farmers plant special seeds with many different names for different purposes, e.g.:
http://tinyurl.com/m49kfca
They may be protected by fungicides or other seed treatments protecting them from birds (pheasant, feral pigeons) feeding on them.
On the other hand I buy repeatedly bags with 20 kg of sunflower for feeding our parrots (mixing it inside ready parrot food because many of these have too much of sunflower seeds) and feeding wild birds. This I buy at a special warehouse which sells only bird/pigeon/rabbits/poultry- food and equipment imported from Belgium, Germany, Nederlands etc.
But also regulary supermarkets and shops are selling sunflower seeds for feeding wild birds in different weights.
I´ve to mention that here it´s not common like in the UK or US to feed the whole year, nor do we run the common english variants nyjer feeder - sunflower feeder and suet but prefering special mix for wild birds like this:
http://www.leimueller.info/edtmuehl...ge/product/Waldvogelfutter__4a337c7a1c732.jpg
Farmers don´t grow sunflowers which one buys for bird feeding. Farmers plant special seeds with many different names for different purposes, e.g.:
http://tinyurl.com/m49kfca
They may be protected by fungicides or other seed treatments protecting them from birds (pheasant, feral pigeons) feeding on them.
On the other hand I buy repeatedly bags with 20 kg of sunflower for feeding our parrots (mixing it inside ready parrot food because many of these have too much of sunflower seeds) and feeding wild birds. This I buy at a special warehouse which sells only bird/pigeon/rabbits/poultry- food and equipment imported from Belgium, Germany, Nederlands etc.
But also regulary supermarkets and shops are selling sunflower seeds for feeding wild birds in different weights.
I´ve to mention that here it´s not common like in the UK or US to feed the whole year, nor do we run the common english variants nyjer feeder - sunflower feeder and suet but prefering special mix for wild birds like this:
http://www.leimueller.info/edtmuehl...ge/product/Waldvogelfutter__4a337c7a1c732.jpg
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That is wonderfully convenient.
Here in the urban US, such specialty warehouses are hard to find and the ability of suppliers to offer anything available for sale as 'Wild Bird Seed' is pretty unregulated. The buyer really has no idea what is in the package.
Thank you, that is very helpful advice.
Even better, there actually still is such a store here in NYC.
It is called Bronx Animal Feeds and this is the web link:
http://www.animalfeedsbx.com/#about
I'd thought the last had gone once they closed the stables for the horses in Central Park, but apparently there is a revival in locally raised chickens.
Fellwalker2000
New member
In the UK you can buy "bakery grade" sunflower hearts, which do not have such nasties in them.
eg
Premium grade sunflower hearts 25kg
by Kennedy wild bird food
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