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How to Make Squirrel Food Mixtures

Whether you have a squirrel as a pet, you want to attract squirrels to your back yard, or you want to distract them and keep them away from your bird feeders, making squirrel food mixtures can be fun and beneficial. Determining exactly what kinds of food squirrels enjoy and what they need (depending upon an indoor or outdoor life) can help you understand how to make squirrel food mixtures that will be thoroughly enjoyed.

Things You'll Need

  • For Outdoor Squirrels:
  • Unsalted whole peanuts
  • Corn on the cob
  • Unsalted sunflower seed
  • Unsalted pecans
  • Unsalted hazel nuts
  • Bits of dried fruit
  • For Indoor Squirrels:
  • A large variety of unsalted nuts, shelled and peeled
  • A large variety of fresh and dried fruit
  • Fresh greens and other fresh vegetables
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Instructions

  1. Instructions

    • 1

      Mix equal amounts of whole, unsalted peanuts, dried corn, and unsalted sunflower seeds in a large bowl.

      Both indoor and outdoor squirrels enjoy seeds that are in the shell as well as cracked seeds. This is a great mixture for outdoor squirrels, and is the same mixture found in many commercial outdoor squirrel foods. You can also add bits of dried fruit to the mixture, such as dried pineapples, apples, bananas, and cranberries.

    • 2

      Place the food mixture in a heavy-duty squirrel feeder, or toss onto the ground outside.

      Beware of using cheap bird feeders made of plastic to feed outdoor squirrels; they will quickly tear them up! The feeder can be hung from a tree branch so squirrels can easily get to it.

    • 3

      Feed indoor squirrels the above mixture for a snack, but they require a much more diverse diet than an outdoor squirrel.

      They should be fed rodent blocks and monkey chow, and when it comes time to create a snack mixture, it should include more fruit than nuts. Since indoor squirrels aren't as active, it's important that their diet only consist of about ten-percent nuts. The squirrel should be fed dried and fresh fruits and vegetables much more often than nuts.

      Make mixes of nearly any fruit and vegetable, and give them to the squirrel twice a day. However, the fruits and vegetables should be cut to a manageable size, and indoor squirrels should never be given fruit pits or other choking hazards.


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