Peanuts
High-energy whole peanuts for mesh feeders. The food the tit flock queues for, served the safe way.
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About our peanuts
Peanuts for bird feeders are one of the great garden staples - dense with fat and protein, adored by the tit family, and capable of keeping a mesh feeder busy from first light until dusk. Blue tits, great tits and long-tailed tits hammer at the mesh in relays, house sparrows and greenfinches muscle in, and robins collect the fragments that fall. The rules of peanut feeding are simple but firm. Always serve whole nuts through a steel mesh feeder so birds take pieces, never whole nuts - a whole peanut can choke a chick, which matters from spring onwards. Buy quality: our peanuts are aflatoxin-tested, because that mould toxin is invisible and harmful, and cheap untested nuts are no bargain. Store them cool, dry and sealed. And since peanuts are the food squirrels prize most, a caged feeder or pole baffle usually pays for itself in the first month. Free UK delivery on orders over £20 with our full guarantee.
Peanuts - FAQs
Why must peanuts be aflatoxin-tested?
Aflatoxin is an invisible mould toxin that harms birds, and untested bargain nuts can carry it. Ours are tested to bird-food standards - the label detail that matters most when buying peanuts.
Can I feed peanuts in nesting season?
Yes, but only through a mesh feeder that forces birds to take small pieces. Never offer loose whole peanuts in spring and summer - parents may carry them to chicks that cannot swallow them.
Which birds eat peanuts?
The tit family are the headline act - blue, great and long-tailed tits all work a peanut feeder hard. House sparrows, greenfinches and chaffinches join in, and robins tidy the drops below.
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