Suet Recipes

Does anyone here make their own fat? I heard it could be an alternative lower cost. The birds in my yard pass through a cake of tallow per day! What kinds of seeds, fruits, etc. do you use?

I use bacon grease and put in cracked corn, sunflower seeds, peanuts or other seeds to birds than I have on hand, but in the freezer, you can save the plastic containers you tallow bought in your store use, there is a list of sites with recipes.

http://birding.about.com/library/weekly/ ...
http://baltimorebirdclub.org/by/suetrecs ...
http://www.birdnature.com/suet.html
http://www.sialis.org/suet.htm
http://www.gardenartisans.com/suet-recip ...
http://townandcountrybirds.com/recipes_f ...

Yes, mine too. I looked at some recipes online, and they all seem very easy ... except I can not find real SUET (beef fat) in one of my bags of groceries, which is the main ingredient.
The basic idea is to melt the fat until liquid, pour into a pan and add pre-mixed bird seed, oats, peanuts, pieces of stale bread, dried fruit ... everything you can find in the store-bought kind. If you currently have a number of packages purchased in stores, keep plastic shells and they come to use for molds reusabe.

Since I do not find the grease everywhere, I come with stale bread, crunchy peanut butter and seeds / grains / fruits. I put everything in a Ziploc bag good, crumble it all together ... very soft-like. (Add a little water if the bread is too bland) in the bag, you can really knead it and pack a little and it forms a dough. When I get a pretty solid place, remove and II put it in the charger ... It is also a good form of relaxation therapy, because when the birds go through it too fast!

Get the beef fat for tallow is really easy. Get some scraps of a butcher, and boil it. Cool the mess boiled, then put it in the refrigerator. The next day, remove the beef fat from the surface of the water.

You can mix the fat with regular bird seed, peanut butter, chopped apple, no matter what your birds like (you may have to warm it right mix). Mix it up, put it in one of these square boxes with plastic sandwich, and paste it in the refrigerator to harden.