Farmer Scott's Sunflower Hearts 12.55KG – Premium Garden & Wild Bird Feed

Farmer Scott's Sunflower Hearts – 12.55kg

Sunflower hearts are the kernels with the black shells already taken off, which is why they are the one seed almost every garden bird will take and the one that leaves nothing on the ground underneath. This is the bulk bag at 12.55kg, the size to buy if a feeder is emptied every couple of days.

Farmer Scott's do not publish an oil percentage, a protein figure or a country of origin for their hearts, and no analysis appears on their own wild bird page. What can be said with confidence is what the product is — dehusked sunflower kernels, nothing added — and how much is in the bag.

Performance & Benefits

• Dehusked kernels, so there are no husks left under the feeder and nothing to rake off a lawn.
• Taken by a very wide range of garden birds, from finches and tits to robins and dunnocks.
• 12.55kg bag — the working size for anyone refilling feeders every few days.
• Flows freely through standard seed feeder ports without bridging.
• Works equally well on a bird table or a ground tray for species that will not use a feeder.

Suitable For

• Busy gardens with several feeders in daily use.
• Anyone who wants the mess of sunflower husks off a patio, path or lawn.
• Feeding through winter and the spring breeding season without repeat orders.
• Not the size for an occasional feeder — the 2kg bag of the same hearts is easier to store and use up.

Feeding

• Fill seed feeders, bird tables or ground trays, alone or mixed into a seed blend.
• Put out only what will be eaten in a day or two; hearts have no shell to protect them and go off faster when wet.
• Clean feeders regularly and move them from time to time to keep the ground below from souring.
• Keep the bag closed between fills and use a scoop rather than a wet hand.
• Farmer Scott's publish no feeding rate, so let the birds set it.

Composition & Analysis

• 12.55kg bag. Barcode 5026132035760.
• Dehusked sunflower hearts. Farmer Scott's list the product but publish no oil, protein, fibre or moisture figures and no origin, so none is stated here.
• They publish no aflatoxin or mycotoxin testing statement for any of their bird food.
• This 12.55kg bag carries a 5026132 barcode prefix, which belongs to Henry Bell & Co rather than to Farmer Scott's own 5061043 range — the large bags appear to be packed for them.