Want to make your own
hummingbird food
recipe? It's easy to do and all you need is white sugar and water.
You won't have to use red food coloring
in the hummingbird food recipe. The only purpose of the food coloring
is to attract hummingbirds and the red on your feeder will be enough to do
that. Red food coloring is also thought to be harmful to the Hummingbirds, so
not using it at all will be the best way to go.
The hummingbird food recipe is made up of 1 part
white granulated table sugar and 4 parts of regular tap water. This 1 to 4 ratio
of sugar to water will closely resemble the nectar that hummingbirds get from
flower blossoms.
The hummingbird food recipe starts by
stirring the white granulated table sugar into the tap water in a pan on your
stove while bringing the mixture to a boil. The importance of boiling the
solution is to remove chlorine from the water and to kill any mold spores or any
yeast spores that might be in the granulated sugar.
Continue boiling the hummingbird food recipe for
two minutes and then take it off the heat to cool. You don't need to boil the
nectar any longer than 2 minutes or you will boil away enough of the water to
change the ratio of sugar to water. A higher sugar concentration resulting from
boiling too long, will be more likely to attract insects.
When the hummingbird food recipe has cooled you can
add it to your feeder. You can store any excess hummingbird food recipe in the
refrigerator (for 7 - 8 days) and use it later.
Only put in as much hummingbird food recipe as you
need to feed the number of Hummingbirds you have using your feeder. It is not
necessary to completely fill your feeder. You don't want to have a large amount
left over to throw away when it comes time to change the Hummingbird nectar in
your feeder.
Making your own Hummingbird food recipe is fun, saves
you some money and is better for
your hummingbirds than nectar that contains red food coloring.
Now that your hummingbird food recipe is done, you
will need to get a feeder that is easy to take apart and clean, and one that
will also protect your hummingbird food recipe from bees ants and wasps.
My favorite choice of hummingbird feeders to use with
the hummingbird food recipe is the
HummZinger Ultra
Aspects 12oz Hummzinger Ultra With Nectar Guard
