Mr. Bird Flaming Hot Feast Large Wild Bird Seed Cylinder 4 lb. 3 oz.

UPDATE (April 30, 2023):Mr Bird's hot pepper cylinders are once again consistently in stock in the original recipe. The cylinders in my last two orders were carefully packed and shipped by the seller, and held together extremely well during transport, on the feeder, even in the rain. The birds love these seed cylinders, and squirrels and other critters do not. A very excellent product, highly recommended!ORIGINAL REVIEW (August 6, 2022):Mr Bird's hot pepper cylinders are usually excellent--quality ingredients, long lasting, good value, does a good job discouraging squirrels and other critters. But within the past year or so, the quality has dropped, maybe because ingredients used in the past are difficult to source right now. (?)The cylinders available now contain safflower seeds, which is fine because those are favorites of many birds. But the ingredient used to bind the cylinders isn't sufficient to withstand shipping, and they tend to melt and fall apart when even a little bit wet with rain. That never happened with the original ingredients. I ordered two cylinders recently and they arrived banged up with loose seeds and chunks that fell off when the wrapping was removed. When one of the cylinders was placed on the feeder this morning, it broke in half, and the top half fell apart and couldn't be stacked on the feeder.Mr Bird seems to be doing the best they can with limited resources at present, and I don't fault them for trying to keep their products available for their customers. But they really do need to rethink the binding agent for the hot pepper cylinders. And Amazon needs to do a better job packing fragile products for shipping. The two large cylinders in my last order were rolling around in a box larger than necessary, and had obviously been banging into each other during transport. How hard could it have been to put a little padding between them?

Finally a bird seed that keeps the squirrels away I will keep buying this !!

Have used for quite some time! Birds love it and squirrels and raccoons don't! Have had problems in the past with them taking bird seed and even taking the feeder! This does not happen now! Now the birds can enjoy their food and we can enjoy watching them!

The birds love it! The suet cylinder is great for the birds and the squirrels leave it alone. It doesn't melt in the heat, but will dissolve with heavy, consistent rain--otherwise, it lasts a long time.

Great item. No squirrels bothered with it. It is NOT, however, bear proof. Our neighborhood bear managed to take away the entire tower.

The birds love this and no squirrels or raccoons! I have 10 bird feeders and furnish all kinds of seed ablnd one of these large cylinders only last 4 days plus I add other seed in other feeders with all hot pepper The birds love them. Keep clean water close by because they all need water with these hot seed. To expensive to feed as many birds that I have. But great!

Whatever adhesive you used was not present in the cake. The entire exterior of the cake crumbled off. Mostly peanuts rather than seed. No hole down the center to mount the cake on the feeder housing.What happened? I've bought this produce over and over again and never any problems. This is trash.If you can't make this right I'll find another dealer.

This is expensive food, but well worth it if you have a ton of squirrels around. A variety of birds will flock to this cylinder of spicy food, however the squirrels are not a fan. Great deterrent - Great item and worth the money.