Henry Bell Peanuts Wild Bird Food 4kg

Henry Bell Peanuts – 4kg

Four kilos of whole peanuts, nothing else in the bag, tested for aflatoxin before it leaves Henry Bell. At 48.7% crude fat and 26.9% crude protein this is the densest single food on a feeding station, and the one that brings nuthatches and great spotted woodpeckers within sight of a kitchen window.

Peanuts have to go into a mesh feeder. That is not a preference: a whole nut carried back to a nest can choke a chick, and mesh is what forces an adult bird to flake pieces off instead of taking the nut away.

Performance & Benefits

• Whole peanuts, a single ingredient, in a 4kg bag.
• Crude fat 48.7% and crude protein 26.9% — Henry Bell's declared figures.
• Henry Bell state their peanuts are tested for aflatoxins.
• The food that reliably brings nuthatches and woodpeckers onto a feeder.
• Feeds all year, not only through the winter.
• Henry Bell also bag peanuts in 1kg, 2kg and 12.55kg.

Suitable For

• Blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, greenfinches, goldfinches, chaffinches, nuthatches, starlings and great spotted woodpeckers.
• Mesh peanut feeders — the Henry Bell Heritage Peanut Feeder or the Henry Bell Select Peanut Feeder.
• Gardens after the widest possible range of clinging birds.
• Year-round feeding, including the breeding season, provided the feeder is mesh.
• Not for a bird table, an open dish or a ground tray. If you feed on the ground, use Henry Bell No Mess Mix instead.

Feeding

• Fill a mesh peanut feeder. Do not offer whole peanuts loose.
• Keep to a regular routine once you start, because birds will come to depend on the supply.
• Empty and wash the feeder with a bird-safe hygiene spray rather than topping up over old nuts.
• Throw away any peanuts that have gone damp, soft or mouldy.
• Keep fresh water available for drinking and bathing.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: peanuts.
• Crude protein 26.9%. Crude fibre 2.7%. Crude fat 48.7%. Crude ash 2.3%.
• 4kg bag. Henry Bell product code H060009.
• Figures are Henry Bell's declared analytical constituents, taken from their own listing.

Care & Caution

• Whole peanuts must be fed from a mesh feeder. Loose nuts can choke a chick when an adult carries one back to the nest.
• The risk is highest from spring to late summer. Keep peanuts behind mesh right through the breeding season.
• Peanuts not sold for bird feeding may carry aflatoxin, which is fatal to birds. Only feed nuts tested and sold for the purpose.
• Throw the bag away if it has gone mouldy rather than picking through it.