Oil Fried Peanuts
Date: 2013-12-13 16:31:23 | Category:
Bird Feeding | Author: Neill Hunt
I can hear everyone gasping now, deep fried peanuts, for birds, what on earth!
Well... I like chips! I can think of nothing better on a cold winters evening than walking along with a fresh hot portion of chips neatly wrapped in this morning's newspaper, salt and vinegar mmmm, lovely. I know they aren't very healthy but they are tasty and lets face it, us humans like a little bit unhealthy pleasure from time to time.
The birds however don't think or act like us...they love fat!
Peanuts are naturally full of high energy fats and oils that are essential to good nutrition and weight gain. During the winter months it is necessary for our garden birds to pile on the pounds, unlike us (trying to lose it for Christmas!) The birds need to gain weight, they need to build up body fat to insulate their bodies during the longer and colder nights of mid-winter, they call upon these fat reserves to survive the frosts and difficult feeding conditions brought on by the colder weather.
We need to supply high energy feeds to help the birds gain the weight and the Americans, who seem to deep fry everything have come up with this new idea. By deep frying the
Premium Peanuts the calorific content is greatly increased, fat and oil level is improved which creates an all-round high energy, mineral infused 'super' nut for our birds! You've got to hand it to the Americans, they know how to fry.
Don't get confused with roasted or salted peanuts; these are a definite NO for the birds. The new
Oil Fried Peanuts are not salted in any way, shape or form but are boosted with oil and fat content which helps with weight gain and calorific energy levels which gives our birds a much needed boost at this time of the year.
They can be fed to the birds in exactly the same way you would use traditional peanuts and they will attract the same species to the
Feeders. I've been trying them out in my own
Feeders and I must admit the birds are loving them,
Blue Tit and
Great Tits are regularly visiting the
Feeders and
Long-tailed Tit and
Coal Tits have been visiting also, brilliant.
We are now offering
Oil Fried Peanuts, why not give them a try, the birds will love them.