Pinhead Oatmeal For Birds. Pinhead oatmeal is excellent for many birds. Pinhead Oats or oatmeal is rich in oil and small soft billed ground feeding birds love them including wrens and dunnocks.
Pinhead oatmeal is great for smaller birds in your garden which is packed with protein. They are attractive to bird such as Wrens Dunnocks Robins Blackbirds Song Thrushes and Chaffinches. The pieces can then be sold or processed further to make rolled oat flakes of smaller size than flakes of whole.
Pinhead Oatmeal is inner part of the oat that has been finely chopped to make it easier for visiting birds to eat.
Steel-cut oats US also called pinhead oats coarse oatmeal UK or Irish oatmeal are groats the inner kernel with the inedible hull removed of whole oats which have been chopped into two or three pinhead-sized pieces hence the names. Wheat and barley grains are often included in seed mixtures but theyre really only suitable for pigeons doves and pheasants which feed on the ground and rapidly increase in numbers frequently deterring the smaller species. Steel-cut comes from the steel blades. There are three ways you can serve oats to your garden birds.