>>Maybe in this case other chicken raisers feed them grain in like a cake of animal fat (like the type you put out for blue tits)?
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>There are a couple of species from that family found in North America. We call it a titmouse. There is the tufted titmouse in the east and the plain titmouse (and maybe one or two other species) in the west. Eurasian species appearing as accidentals in Alaska or maybe elsewhere in far western North America would be called tits as in England.
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>So that's why some people may be snickering. But even some biology students were snickering at the University of Maryland when an ornithology professor gave a lecture, attended by a friend of mine, about the Great Tit.
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>Some North American bird enthusiasts put out suet or other things like what you describe for certain winter birds, such as titmice and chickadees.

As a kid we thought Alan Sherman's "Tit Willow" was great because it put the adults in kinda a bind < s >