Tmf Premium Quality Bird And Squirrel In Shell Peanuts, 20 Lb

I don't care if the peanuts are small. I don't care if they're half cracked. This is feed but a bag of feed that is literally CRAWLING with moths and larvae in various stages of life. I wouldn't even care if it were just a one here and there, but there were larvae inching their way out of the bag and into my back mud room where the bag was stored. I can't put the dang bag outside either because, well it's a bag of a feed and squirrels would make short work of it. I've only opened this bag a week ago and each time I go back to it there are more crawlies inside. This doesn't have to be sanitary but I got shipped a bag that pretty much a living colony. Again - the jays and other birds don't care but I now have to figure out a way to store 20 lbs of peanuts outside my house. Just irritating.

This was my first time buying the Thomas Moore Feed 20 lb. peanuts as these had never come up in my search before. I was buying a different bag (25 lbs.) and the price has since increased significantly. The peanuts are small and they don't smell like the peanuts you get from the grocery store but the squirrels don't care! This a great bargain for the amount of peanuts you get!I've attached a couple of photos. As you can see, my cat was rather suspicious of the bag - it looked like a bag of cat food but clearly did not smell like a bag of cat food! LOLUpdate 08/16/17: I had previously said in my original review that the peanuts were small but it varies. One bag had small peanuts but the last bag I got had huge peanuts! A lot of them were funky big "triple" peanuts, lol Regardless of size, the squirrels love them!

I bought these peanuts to keep squirrels out of my bird feeders. Which they do but it also brought many species of bird that had no interest in the feeders. Namely Bluejays, woodpeckers and nut hatches. Also I was expecting a low grade product with broken shells or nuts too smal to be used for human consumption but that is NOT the case. These are just like peanuts you'd find at your grocery except they've not been roasted and salted. They are raw/natural state. Perfect for bringing wild life to your yard. Note - they will also attract neighborhood opposum and raccoons but that doesn't bother me. I enjoy watching them too.

Only problem is it takes ;too much of my time watching the antics of the critters snarffing up these little peanuts like they hadn't eaten in a long time.I couldn't believe how fast they could go through a pound of the nuts and that was only one chippy I saw and a squirrel fending off a couple of jays. I don't want to be without these for feeding my little friends. Price is less than half of what they cost per pound in the local market. Highly recommend. Just don't order too many, I want some left for me to reorder. :-)

The peanuts are fine (small, but fine), but there were little moths inside the bag which flew out when I opened the bag. Also, I was surprised to find the same weight bag (different brand but also smaller peanuts) at my local pet food store for significantly less per pound than this product. I will not buy this again.

I used to buy food-grade roasted peanuts for the critters at outrageous prices per pound. But for a little under $1.50/lb I can get 20 pounds! I also noted that blue jays, squirrels, titmice, and crows don't show any particular preference for roasted peanuts over unroasted. Additionally, the bulk peanuts are larger and unbroken which cannot be said for the food grade peanuts.

Well, since I'm not the one that eats these things, I manged to coerce one of the local scrub jays to give us his impressions. He's been eating them like candy, and here's what he had to say: "Uh yeah, these peanuts are great. Sometimes, there is a nut missing from the shell, but I just drop those on the ground and go for another. I mean, why settle for less when there are so many more to be had. I just wish the human would keep the feeder full all of the time, particularly since that dam squirrel keeps stealing them. Me and the boys are gonna figure out a way to deal with him."

So I finally got around to breaking the seal on the bag and low and behold I was greeted by hundreds of winged insects, not the biting kind but I certainly don't want the bag in my house and if I leave it outside the squirrels will tear into it and the nuts will be gone in no time.