Cole's Hot Meats Bird Food, 5-Pound

The birds love this food and it really keeps squirrels, rats, etc. from eating it. It's a little pricey though, but worth it to have all of the birds in my yard minus party animals robbing the feeders.

squirrels do not like it. best success we've had so far.

Our birds love it, squirrels hate it!

Super spicy!

This mix does discourage squirrels!

Birds absolutely love it, but it sends the squirrels leaping away (very hilarious if you have a bird cam set up to watch). Note, use gloves when handling this, the spice will affect you as well! I've never seen a feeder get cleaned out by the birds so quickly. I do think they love not having to fuss with sunflower shells, and its also less mess below the feeder.

As soon as I opened the bag, I began to violently sneeze. Soon followed by coughing, runny nose and itchy eyes. The squirrels are going to HATE this stuff. Next time I'll wear a mask and gloves when handling. But I'll be shocked if the squirrels keep coming back after one or 2 experiences with this mix.

No need to mix your own ratio of seed to habanero pepper. The Birds seem to enjoy it and I don't have squirrels hanging off my feeder. Having the sunflower meats seems to leave less mess under the feeder too. Less Shells.

Unfortunately my squirrels actually sit in the feeder eating most of the seed and leave crumbs for the birds. I didn't mix the hot seed with anything else and squirrels still loved it. It gets 2 stars because some birds will eat this seed too and my 30 lbs. of seed won't be completely wasted.

This is terrible bird food. The birds usually flock to my backyard whenever I put seed in the feeder. The birds come to look then fly away with this new seed . I am out a significant amount of money and no birds to enjoy. Very disappointed with this seed.