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The birds love these!
Reading the reviews I have never had any issues for these fat balls, the birds love them. Seems fine in rain, they do not seem too hard, I do not get a lot of mess. This will be the third box I have bought my only concern was the size of the box, it would probably be nice if the box was smaller but I suppose buying more in bulk enables us to have a better bargain. I will definitely be buying these again.
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Terrible
Fat balls are so hard that even the woodpeckers struggle to get into them. Breaking them apart reveals they’re nearly all fat, with hardly any seeds. Even the squirrels won’t touch them. Complete waste of money
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Hard enough to use as Golf balls
These balls are so hard the birds are ignoring them. Wont buy them again. What have they done to them to make them so hard?
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Beware seeds oil for birds
Fat balls should have animal fat.. its proven seed oils are not good for animals..
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Birds love them!
I'm surprised at the bad reviews. I don't know if the composition has changed over the years, as a lot of the reviews are quite old. They have nets if you order them, if not, they come loose in a cardboard box (as I ordered them). Rain or crumbliness has not been an issue.
Birds like them more than other brands. The only issue I have is the size, I don't have that much space for such a big box. One half the size would be ideal
Plastic hazard
Each of the balls is wrapped in plastic mesh. A nightmare for the environment and a danger to birds who can get their claws caught. Won’t be buying again.
Very very soft and crumbly
This are not going to last 5mins. The dogs will get more than the birds as really crumbly and disintegrating before even put in the fat ball cage feeder.
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Superb
Ordered Wednesday, arrived Friday. Superb service. Fat Balls look good too!
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Good quality fat balls, but need microwaving to soften them
I have always bought these fat balls from Zooplus, however, in the colder months they have arrived harder which is normal since they have been in a warehouse/storage.
I therefore put a few in a bowl and microwave them for a minute or so, then they become softer and I the birds can eat them more easily, since many are unable to eat the fat balls when hard. I even break them in my bird feeder stand also after microwaving them.
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Melts in the rain
When is not raining they’re great.
Unfortunately they just turn to mush in the rain and cause a mess.
Almost half in pieces
These are very crumbly and therefore fall apart easily. Opened box to find that about a third of the balls weren't balls anymore and instead were in small pieces at the bottom. Won't be buying again.
birds love these
there are very good fat balls and the birds demolish them
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Net V No Net
After reading the reviews were some said without nets some were smashed on delivery. I decided to get them in nets, all were in one piece but the net was not sealed enough to hang on a hook without breaking, so my partner take the net off. as he lifted the net of the ball the ball exploded and the whole kitchen fall was covered, learned to leave the net on.
All birds loved them will get again
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Fat balls
The birds do not touch these. Have left some in nets, some out but not eaten. First time I have used these but will have to go back to usual brand this Winter.
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No nets! Well done!
Happy to see they now have them without netting.
This has been one of my favourite products to buy for my birds, but the netting was very irritating and I found it dangerous to wildlife and later on to dispose off (as they cant be recycled).
Only downside is that it breaks easier in the box and through delivery. But Im sure a solution will be found soon!
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Poor quality
The balls don't hold together, they get all squashed. All of them had to be thrown away.
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No need for nets
The birds like these fat balls. I would have scored more highly if they were not in nets. Birds can get their feet caught in plastic netting. I cut the nets off before putting the balls in a feeder.
Loved by sparrows
The sparrows will eat anything, and they eat these fat balls happily, but tits and other wild birds in my garden do not touch them.
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Net nightmare
As a product this is wonderful. Birds love them and its great price.
But unfortunately it is a nightmare for environment.
There way too many nets. Would be wonderful if they get rid of all the individual nettings.
Reviews from other countries
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100 stuks à 90 g (met net)
This time really bad!
Ordered before, but this time it's a mess in the box—fat balls crumbled, in pieces, lots of empty nets. Disgraceful. Can't do much with it.
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100 St. à 90 g ohne Netz
are almost all fat
I ordered these fat balls for the first time and unfortunately, I won’t be doing it again. I can hardly see any seeds, it’s almost all fat. Maybe that’s to be expected at this price. The birds, who usually fight over fat balls so I have to refill them every other day, are ignoring these ones. The current fat ball has been hanging in the repurposed whisk for almost a week now. I’ll try melting them down and adding more seeds, otherwise it would be a waste.
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View original|Germany
100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Lots of breakage and the weight is incorrect
The quality of these fat balls is rather poor. There's a lot of breakage and crumbs that can't be fed as balls. Because of this bad quality, I weighed them for the first time. The box says 9 kg, but there were actually only 8.5 kg inside! I've had much better feed before! :-(
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View original|Germany
100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Lots of broken dumplings in the package
I order these fat balls for my mother, and the birds really like eating them. However, in the last delivery, a lot of the fat balls were broken. That shouldn't happen, because it makes it hard to put them in the feeders. It ends up being more like loose feed, which unfortunately can also attract rats and other animals. I hope this was just a one-off.
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100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Fat balls for birds
Unfortunately, the bread dumplings are very dry and mostly broken apart.
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100 x 90 g - con rete
Balls of fat
I've been buying this item for years, but with the last delivery, the packaging got much worse—there's no longer a bag to hold the balls and, even worse, half of the balls had disintegrated. This is also due to the changed mix, which is now too delicate and falls apart immediately.
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100 x 90 g - con rete
Terrible packaging
The item itself is actually good, but the problem is the packaging. The box arrived with half of the balls intact, everything else was crumbled... I don't recommend buying this item if it's packaged like this because it's unusable.
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View original||Germany
100 St. à 90 g ohne Netz
Quality varies a lot!
In August, I ordered the fat balls from ZOOplus for the first time. Our garden birds and we were very happy with the delivery, so I had to reorder already at the beginning of September. The "new" fat balls were not only mostly smaller, but also lighter in colour, and a lot of them just crumbled into a powdery mess on the garden floor!
I would really like to get the same quality as the first delivery again!!
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View original|France
100 x 90 g, sans filet
Not great
I'm used to buying these seeds, but I was very disappointed with my last purchase. The seeds were no longer packed in the usual large plastic bag for protection; they were just loose in the box. They were very dry and completely crumbled, but what disgusted me the most was finding animal hair in the balls. I won't be buying this brand again.
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View original||Germany
100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Fat balls without netting
Unfortunately, a lot of the dumplings were squashed and could only be fed as crumbs. And only in the birdhouse, since they just fall through the feeder.
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100 x 90 g, sin red
Food balls
They peck at them wonderfully. It doesn't matter if they're hanging in the trees or on the ground.
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View original||Netherlands
200 stuks à 90 g (met net)
poor delivery of the fat balls
The fat balls fall apart in the net, they look terrible and can't be used.
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100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
The dumplings are well received
At my place, tits and sparrows go for the fat balls. Even a woodpecker has had a go, and a magpie has picked up pieces that fell to the ground.
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View original||Hungary
100 darab (90 g/db) háló nélkül
Variable quality fat balls
The batch of fat balls I ordered this year was completely different in quality compared to last year's. The crumbly balls were full of whole wheat grains, which the tits can't eat. As they pecked at the balls, the whole grains just fell to the ground, so most of the fat balls went to waste. Luckily, the bigger birds—doves, pigeons, and magpies—picked up the wheat from the ground.
Fat balls with this kind of mix aren't suitable for feeding tits, so I won't be buying them again.
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View original||Germany
100 St. à 90 g ohne Netz
much smaller...
The product is okay, but unfortunately the dumplings have become much smaller – at least in the last delivery. I hope that changes again.
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View original|Netherlands
100 stuks à 90 g (met net)
Balls fall apart.
Very mediocre stuff. A quarter of the balls fall apart and are hardly usable.
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View original||Germany
100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Great product
This product is the most suitable for my wild birds. I keep ordering it again and again.
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View original|Germany
100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Super great fat balls for tits
Our tits love these fat balls. By the way, our woodpecker family does too!
We and our wild birds can only recommend them!
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100 x 90 g, sans filet
Excellent
Very good value for money for these fat balls for birds. I buy them regularly and I'm never disappointed.
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100 St. à 90 g mit Netz
Very satisfied
My birds love the fat balls. Good value for money. Thanks to the packaging without nets, there’s hardly any waste. I keep ordering them again and again.
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