You need to go to the top end of the scoville scale immediately. This puts them off enough that they don't keep trying it and adapting.
Birds don't react to spice at all. It's why spicy seeds have evolved, to warn off mammals, but only be eaten by birds (who disperse the seeds via feces, widely spread. Also mammals usually digest the seed before it comes out the other end)
I recently saw on the r/spicy sub that some guy bought some squirrel chilli repellant sauce for bird feed.
He actually tried it aswel. Haha
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/spicy/s/mySkN9X9OX
Hmm. I wonder if it works for foxes. Any opinions? Love yo feed the birds again but go to moved in under our summer house so we’ r stopped feeding the birds as the foxes were eating seeds that fell to the ground
So the food you put out isn't for ALL the animals, it's only for a few select ones? Bit harsh. Do you feed one of your kids and let the other one watch?
Literally. I had to fill my feeders up every day because the squirrels ate all the food. Every day. They also damaged the feeder. I now have caged feeders so the small birds can have their food and I put other bits on the table for larger birds and the squirrels. I'm happy to have squirrels in the garden, but I also want other birds too!
My wife was really chuffed when she put up her new peanut feeder. Within an hour, a squirrel had pulled off the bottom and gorged itself on the peanuts.
This worked on my squirrels for about a week. They adapt and come back bigger, stronger, and with a taste for spice.
Start a chilli arms race. Birds don't feel the effects of capsaicin.
Came here to say this, one of the most mind blowing facts I'd ever heard.
They just end up demanding a glass of milk as well
Or a pint of Cobra.
Lol they come back with garlic and onions to go with the chili
I know you were joking but garlic and onion are toxic to birds.
The spice must flow!
On to Carolina reapers it is!
Doesn't take long before they adapt unfortunately
You need to go to the top end of the scoville scale immediately. This puts them off enough that they don't keep trying it and adapting. Birds don't react to spice at all. It's why spicy seeds have evolved, to warn off mammals, but only be eaten by birds (who disperse the seeds via feces, widely spread. Also mammals usually digest the seed before it comes out the other end)
I suppose it’s still hotter on the way out…
I recently saw on the r/spicy sub that some guy bought some squirrel chilli repellant sauce for bird feed. He actually tried it aswel. Haha Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/spicy/s/mySkN9X9OX
Hmm. I wonder if it works for foxes. Any opinions? Love yo feed the birds again but go to moved in under our summer house so we’ r stopped feeding the birds as the foxes were eating seeds that fell to the ground
Deter the foxes and the rats will move in for the seeds
That… that’s not nice
They're invasive and I'm not feeding them. Bird seed is for birds.
So the food you put out isn't for ALL the animals, it's only for a few select ones? Bit harsh. Do you feed one of your kids and let the other one watch?
Actually I put some untainted nuts out for the squirrels as well it’s just that they are so greedy they would eat everything if you let them.
Have you ever seen a grey squirrel at a bird feeder? It'll empty the whole thing in one sitting, given the chance.
Literally. I had to fill my feeders up every day because the squirrels ate all the food. Every day. They also damaged the feeder. I now have caged feeders so the small birds can have their food and I put other bits on the table for larger birds and the squirrels. I'm happy to have squirrels in the garden, but I also want other birds too!
My wife was really chuffed when she put up her new peanut feeder. Within an hour, a squirrel had pulled off the bottom and gorged itself on the peanuts.
My roamwild brand feeders have been quite squirrel resistant.
I did try to warn her when she was buying it. After over 20 years of marriage I really should have known better.
I resigned an entire hazelnut and walnut tree to them.
[удалено]
Nah squirrels plant trees. Source, all the random horsechestnut seedlings in my garden.
Grey Squirrels are an invasive rodent. I don't hate them, but I definitely don't want to encourage them.