Ivel Valley Wild Bird Food

Ivel Valley Wild Bird Food

We have been sent 3 products to review from Ivel Valley.

Ready Peck 5 a day products have been designed to attract more beautiful wild birds to your garden and to provide them with a high-quality nutritious feed. The products have been 5 years in development and they are passionate about producing the best bird food that you can buy.
Ivel Vallley are a family farm based business in the Ivel Valley in Bedfordshire.  They aim to grow as much of the ingredients as possible.
They make their own suet products, blend and pack the seeds on the farm site.

We often get quite a lot of different birds in our garden as we often feed them. So knew that these products would be ideal for us to try.

Ready peck 5 a day seed feeder mix 7.5kg
This was supplied in an orange reusable container with handle, it has a hinged lid to give easy access, when out in the garden.
This seed mix is designed to go in seed feeders is a high in energy, low waster and no wheat. Five a day ingredients – suet, oats, seeds, nuts and insects. This product has been five years in development and is designed to attract a wider range of beautiful birds to your garden.

The ingredients in the feed are Sunflower hearts, kibbled peanuts, naked oats, insects and mealworm suet pellets, white millet seeds, red millet seeds and red dari seeds.

Types of Birds
The birds that will enjoy this food include: Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, House Sparrows, Green finch, Siskin, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Robins and Long Tailed Tits.

I’m sure the box will be recycled for use by one of the children when it’s empty.

We first tried it in our new big feeder, which is the most popular one in the garden, although there was not much interest in it to begin with so we left it in their for a few days and slowly seen a bit more interest in it. The sparrows and Chaffinch seemed to enjoy this the most and seemed more popular after a few days.
We also scattered some of the seeds on the ground for them too and there seemed to be more interest that way

This came as a 7.5kg container and is available to purchase from the website here

Ready Peck 5 A Day Suet Pellets – Apple 1KG

Ready Peck pellets are popular with a whole host of birds and designed to be fed on the ground, on a table or you can put them in a specialised pellet feeder, but we don’t own one of them. This is the ultimate suet pellet – high in energy and includes real fruit. Five a day ingredients – suet, oats, seeds, nuts and fruit. Five years in development and designed to attract beautiful birds to your garden.

The ingredients in the pellets are, suet wheat flour, peanut flour, oat flour, millet flour, dried apple and colouring.

Types of Birds
Birds that will enjoy this food include: Great tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Long Tailed Tit, Robins, Starlings, Wrens, Blackbirds and Thrushes

We put the out on the ground in the usual spot we would feed and this was an instant hit.
The first birds that came was a Blackbird and its baby and we seen the blackbird feeding its baby which was lovely to watch. The Magpies also seemed to love it and we also saw a Wood Pigeon, Dove and Sparrow taking a lot of interest in this product.
This came in a 1kg packet to me – but you can purchase 2kg, 6kg, 12.5kg, 20kg, 40kg, 60kg available here on their website. There are a range of different flavour suet pellets that you can buy, berry, peanut, apple and blackcurrant here

Ready Peck 5 A Day Suet Balls – Insect and Mealworm 6 Pack
Ready Peck suet balls are popular with a whole host of birds and designed to go in suet ball feeders. This is the ultimate suet ball – high in energy includes dried insects and mealworms. Five a day ingredients – suet, oats, seeds, nuts and insects.These suet balls have been in development for five years and are designed to attract more beautiful birds to your garden.

The ingredients include suet, wheat flour, peanut flour, oat flour, ground maize, sunflower seeds, millet seeds, linseed, insects and mealworms and oyster shell.

Types of Birds
Birds that will enjoy this food include: Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Robins, Long Tailed Tits, Starlings and Wrens.

We put this on the table outside and within an hour we had interest from different type of birds. We have bought different balls in the past, but these ones I feel were much better as they were not as hard so they were much easier for the birds to eat from.

This comes in a pack of 6 for £1.95 pack and is the smallest pack that the company produce but you can  purchase in 6, 50, 120, 200, 400 available here on the Ivel Valley website.

We thought that these products from Ivel Valley were great and would highly recommend them to other friends who are also interested in birds like us.

Mummy H

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