My thanks to all of the responses to my question about suet. I had a few that gave directions on how to render it. And quite a few that said to chop it up and put it in the feeder as is. And then I got an email from someone who had a very convincing argument as to why I shouldn't bother... Normally I wouldn't bother..really I wouldn't..but when the opportunity arises to do a bit of little tyke teaching and exploring "old school" ways of doing things..I take the opportunity. :-) I don't think that I will render it though, I'll do what some others have suggested and just put it out straight. I might buy some rendered fat and make some seed&nut suet blocks just for fun. So again thanks for all of the replies. Ya'll have been very helpful. Steve Jones (a.k.a. sjlarue) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]