Wagner’s 76027 Black Oil Sunflower Wild Bird Food, 25-Pound Bag

Birds LOVE these seeds, and you cannot beat this super low price on this 25 lb bag! EXCELLENT!
I got this 25 lb bag of black oil sunflower wild bird seed for only $15/98! FAB price her on Amazon! I have paid this same amount for much smaller bags on Amazon before (5 lb bags, 8 lbs, etc). What a super find for this HUGE bag! The birds all seem to love it! As long as the price remains this low, I will always buy my black oil sunflower seeds from Wagner on Amazon! They seem very fresh and it gets a ton of birds to my feeders each day, all day long! The only drawback is that where the smaller Wagner seed bags had a great velcro closure, this huge 25 lb does not. I wish they would add one, as it really helps to keep the seeds fresh for a longer period, and it avoids accidental spills.Originally in our feeders, I went with only striped sunflower seeds (which cardinals and bluejays are said to like, and house sparrows are not supposed to like at all), plus I went with safflower seeds (which cardinals are said to LOVE, and which house sparrows are supposed to dislike, as well as are the squirrels). WRONG! The house sparrows either ate the safflower, or they would kick them down to the ground, trying to get to the other seeds in the mix (namely the black oil sunflower ones). The squirrels LOVED finding and eating the safflower seeds that fell on the ground. The cardinals, on the other hand, seemed to hate the safflower seeds. They would eat for a few seconds, and then leave. As for the striped sunflower seeds? Well, the bluejays weren’t thrilled. They only ate them when all of the peanuts in shell were gone. lol The cardinals didn’t care for the striped sunflower seeds at all. ugh The sparrows were too busy kicking around the safflower to really pay attention to the striped ones. The only birds that loved the striped sunflower seeds were the fat doves. They loved to sit on them in the tray feeder! lol When they flew away, a trail of striped sunflower seeds would fall to the ground, which of course the squirrels LOVED to munch on. Wow, what an ecosystem I had going — but I was not attracting the birds I wanted most: Cardinals and Blue Jays. I finally gave up and gave in to giving all of the birds what they wanted — Black Oil Sunflower Seeds! Everyone seems happy now: Cardinals, Purple Finches, Doves, Squirrels, Crows, and an array of other birds. They all visit the bird feeders many times each day. I love watching them. It’s especially funny as we have one feisty squirrel who plays “bouncer”, and will run off the other squirrels and doves when he feels there are too many around. lol Everyone seems happier now that the black sunflower seeds are the main seed on the menu. The Blue Jays and Titmice, however, seem to love only the peanuts. 🙂 And the cutie pie goldfinches (and purple finches) are happy that they get their thistle seed all to themselves.

Favorite bird food
I have rried many different bird foods. This is the birds favorite.

the chicken likes it
Last winter I started feeding black oil sunflower seed to the neighbor’s rooster. They had moved away and left this rooster all alone in his coop. Just him. They asked if I could watch out for him? I’m serious. So every day for the last six months and counting I have been looking out for this little fellow. I know nothing about taking care of a chicken. It got really cold in his coop last winter and he was all alone in there without any hens to help him stay warm. And what should I feed him? I wasn’t sure. I bought him chicken feed, the kind that looks like cereal. He would not eat that. But he would eat bird seed and I started mixing it with black oil sunflower seed and he really likes that. When I ran out of it last month I ordered a bag of this brand. He seems to like it just fine. When I feed him outside the word gets out fast, the wild songbirds, cardinals, sparrows, come swooping in to eat what he doesn’t.So I am happy with this brand. Is it better than others? Worse? I have no clue. As long as he eats it and he stays healthy I am happy. This review asks me what I think of the taste of this seed? Well, I did not eat any of it so I have no opinion about that. I’m not sure why that question is being asked? Oh well, the whole world is going to seed. Hopefully some of them will sprout. I planted some of these in the hope of growing some sunflowers but the raccoons keep digging them up to eat them. If you polled them they would probably say they taste just fine!We live out in the country two doors down from the house where the rooster lives. We are about 100 yards away. It is hot and humid here so we are sleeping with the windows open. At about 4:30 every morning we’ll start hearing Mr. Rooster waking up and crowing over in his coop. He keeps it up until I go over there a couple of hours later to let him out. Then he scampers across the road to visit the two hens that live over there. Last week those hens had five chicks hatch! Rooster is a daddy! I upped his ration of sunflower seed after that. The boy needs to keep up his vitality and energy! Why does this chicken cross the road? Pretty obvious.

Wagner’s Black Oil Sunflower Wild Bird Food
The birds and other “critters” in my backyard enjoy it.

Good product!!