At Koopman Lumber, we seek to bring you innovative solutions to common problems every day. With our Product Spotlight blogs, we’ll briefly highlight items that we believe many people can make use of but may not be aware that they exist. Making your life easier is our mission! Today we’re going to be taking a look at a unique line of bird seed, Cole’s Hot®.

Are you tired of seeing everything BUT birds at your feeder? Do you want to create a destination for your feathered friends without inviting the whole neighborhood of animals to chow down on the good stuff that you’re offering?

Cole’s Bird Seed has the answer with their Hot® family of wild bird feed products.  What makes this product line so unique and efficient?

•  100% all natural, chemical free way to increase the number of birds at your feeder while keeping other would-be diners at bay.
• Seeds remain intact in bird’s digestive tracks, the chili pepper in Cole’s Hot® doesn’t taste hot to them.
• Mammal digestive tracks break down the seed when ingested. So as a defense mechanism, chili plants feel hot to them.

Seeds

Cole’s Blazing Hot Blend™ and Hot Meats™ both contain a patented oil formula from chili powder that mammals like squirrel’s find unappetizing but birds love.

Hot Blend ™ contains preferred seeds of backyard songbirds such as Woodpeckers, Grosbeaks, Cardinals, Chickadees, Bluebirds, Goldfinches and more.

Hot Meats™ include nutritious sunflower meats for a great no waste, no mess feed. Bluebirds and Cardinals are especially fond of the spicy Cajun flavor.

Seed Sauce

Flaming Squirrel Seed Sauce™ is a nutritional birdseed supplement that contains all natural, 100% food grade ingredients with a super hot and spicy flavor. Birds love the taste of the Cajun spice. Birds have a particular advantage over mammals when it comes to the hot stuff, they can’t taste it! Birds don’t process capsaicin the same way humans do. In humans, we experience a burning sensation as the capsaicin binds to receptors in our mouths, but birds experience no such discomfort as their receptors don’t react to capsaicin to nearly the same degree as humans. While mammals tend to avoid foods that are 100-1000 parts-per-million (PPM) capsaicin, birds will happily eat anything up to 20,000 ppm!

Meet The Family

Cole’s birdseed is a family run business that is the embodiment of the American dream. Learn more about the Cole’s family and why their bird seed is so popular in their video below: