AB12 stewardship bird feed mix

[Vader]

Can anyone recommend a wild bird food mix that garden birds eat up, leaving no waste?

I’ve tried various mixes over the years but there always seems to be one or more ingredients that get left - causing mess or sprouting weeds.

I’ve recently opted for mixing my own using sunflower hearts, peanuts (whole and kibbled), suet pellets, fat balls and dried insects - all from Wilko.

Just lately though, the sunflower hearts aren’t all being eaten up.

Recommendations gratefully received please

No birds in garden this year...

 

[Vader]

What's payment rate for it now actually.
Did they increase it?

 

[Andy26]

What's payment rate for it now actually.
Did they increase it?

£657/t

AB12: Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds

Find out about eligibility and requirements for the supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds option.

www.gov.uk

You will struggle to byt the feed for that let alone spread and comply with all the conditions.

 

[copse]

£657/t

AB12: Supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds

Find out about eligibility and requirements for the supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds option.

www.gov.uk

You will struggle to byt the feed for that let alone spread and comply with all the conditions.

Looks like a total waste of time to me.

 

[Andy26]

Has anyone got any photos of the machine/ hopper they use to distribute the bird seed mix?

Hoping to build one for soon, just looking for ideas, thinking an old stocks hopper just with a close/open shoot.

Just use an old stocks fanjet?

I use our FanJet to broadcast the AB12, mounted on 3pl on tractor, broadcasting AB12 onto AB6.

 

[Andy26]

Looks like a total waste of time to me.

Yes it is from a financial point, might of stacked up at 1990s prices but not thirty years later.

 

[Mixedupfarmer]

Yes it is from a financial point, might of stacked up at 1990s prices but not thirty years later.

Fear not, rates for AB12 have increased by £12/t from the first of January.