The birds will be happy now…..

I rendered out venison suet this morning and got about 12 pounds of clean liquid suet to which I added 4 pounds of cheap peanut butter and 4 pounds of ground peanuts. I filled three of the plastic boxes that suet blocks come in and then filled sour cream cartons until it all had somewhere to be.

The sour cream carton stuff will get pressed into hole in a birch log that hangs right outside the window of the computer room and the cakes go in cage hangers. The woodpeckers, chickadees and nuthatches go bonkers over this venison suet mix.

I had this much already finished up off my two deer. A friend from Iowa saved this last stuff for me. I’m sitting pretty good now and shouldn’t have to buy any suet products now until summer.

The cracklings left from the rendering go into peanut cages wrapped in aluminum foil. The foil keeps the solids inside the cages until they’ve cooled and set hard. The birds like these too.

I weeded out some belly fat that had some meat left on them and hung them on a tree limb out back. Birds use this too. Given the way bird chow on this suet and fat I have a hard time just tossing it. Are there others here who use the deer fat for bird feeding?

I do as well, just trim the fat off and hang in the
suet cages, they will eat this over beef or pig fat

I made myself a feeder to put suet into for the woodpeckers. The damn tree rats chewed it all to hell

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The squirrels around here all suffer from pelletosis.

And treerats are good eating too!

Tom:

Considering this is the second year of feeding the birds and actually the first year in three that I have taken a deer, they are loving the fat from the very fatty doe that I got a couple of weeks ago. At first it didn’t seem like they were going to like the bloody fat, but they are working it hard now. Straight from the body it seems like the fat is harder than the fat from the suet containers as it hangs in the tree. I’m running two suet feeders, but still think the fat from this doe will take me into Feb. I also was thinking about hanging the deer carcass in the back in a tree for them to pick on…

Mark

that’s what I do, I hang the rib cage in the tree and they pick
it clean

Anyone willing to share the Process to making your own suet? Recipe? I’ll be getting some beef in the next week & have talked to the butcher about getting a few pounds of fat from them. I’d love to learn how to make my own suet. The birds really do a number on my suet cakes to the tune of about one every 2 days. Granted the stuff is pretty cheap, I’d like to be able to make cakes & Peanut Butter cones at home with the kids. Any info would be great!

Coarse grind the fat then bake it in a roaster in the oven at about 275-300 degrees. It’ll take a couple hours and you’ll need to stir it often. As the solids start to actually brown you can strain them out so you’re left with only the fat [oil] left in the roaster. You’ll want to have something to transfer the liquid suet to when its finished rendering..

Black Otter Squirreless birdseed at Black Otter Supply.com is the only seed that we have found that the squirrels try and leave alone. I bet if you mixed it with your tallow it would be great!

Hey Mark Congratulations on the doe did you shoot it from the tree stand you bought from me.