With spring comes the shearing of our alpacas and a whole lot of fiber. We carefully handle the prime blanket fleece and collect the 2nd and 3rd cuts off into their separate bags. However there are always leftovers, little bits that are too short or too coarse and aren’t worth collecting to be processed. Fiber is your livelihood, you hate to just throw it away. There has to be something or someone who could use all those scraps.
The answer: The Fiber Feeder! Mother Nature really wants your scraps. This time of year all of our beautiful song birds are coming back and diligently making their nests. What better way to help out our feathered friends than to collect your scraps and make fiber feeders.
You can either fill up an empty suet feeder with your scraps or make one out of chicken wire like I did. I sewed up the sides with bailing twine. If you use chicken wire be sure to turn all the ends in so you A) don’t stab yourself with wire and B) poke the poor birds who come to pick out fiber from the feeder.
If you’d like fiber to fill a suet feeder of your own I’ll be happy to mail you some for $5 which just covers my costs of packaging and shipping charges. Email me for a PayPal invoice. Requests are mailed out next day by 9am. I believe in fast shipping!
