Normally the price for bird nest will increase during december/january? since february is CNY

yeah i also dont really like consultants. and internet lack information about latest gadgets for swiftlet farming too. i also wish to share my knowledges about BH. But mine is operated in a old way. 5 chicken coup humdifier that's all. temperature around 29-31C for upper level. Going to update my BH status after i back next week helping my mum to monitor the BH.

So far problems i faced:
1. Few new birds are dead( lizard?)
2. Lizard.

guys, My BH last 4 months around 1.3k nest. 800 nests in the 1st floor. after 4 months, it increased to 1k nests. Mean 4 months increase 200 nests only. Is that normal? We harvest like 20 days once. Hopefully can see more increment on 2nd floor tomorrow.

guys, how do u people maintain your chicken coop humidifier? i got a broken unit. Dont know how to repair it.

U from sarikei as well? Where do u plan to build your bird house? Most of the new BH in town especially premises one, doesnt show a good result unless u build beside BATA tauke or the coffin shops one. Because the town is sooo saturated with bird houses. But then recently the area near to the swimming pool got a lot of bird houses.

what is the current price for bird nest? in sarawak dropped so much now only Rm4100 per kg

Same thing happen over sarawak here. In my place, there are 2 men who tried to steal my uncle bird nests. The first time they succeed. The second time they try to break in, 2 of them were caught on spot. A group of 5 people which are my uncle friends and nearby BH owners, beat them with baseball bat and some woods. Then my uncle join the party by kicking them . If not mistaken one of their legs were broken. The other one just bleeding and sent to the police station. This thing happened 1-2 years ago. Since then, we tighten our security measures and nothing happen so far. I wonder how to break in if we use steel/concrete doors? Go in through monkey house would be suicide unless they have tactical gears.

This is not true at all. It is not that easy. As the town already very saturated with BH.

I just came back from my hometown and help my parents with their bird house as well. They add another 2 humidifiers in the upper stair. Total up 4 humdifiers, 2 each room. But as usual, my parents didnt put humidifier in the downstair ( most populated area). Last few months were mating months? Because i saw alot of new swiftlets flying around. And manage to harvest more than usual (4.5kg). We were surprised because normally we harvest twice a month which total up around 1.5-2kg. I did count the bird nests too. I noticed the increment not so fast compared to last time. From august to december last year, increase from 1.3k to 1.7k nests. But as long there are increment, we will be happy. We are rural folks anyways except im studying at town right now. The bird shit seriously make me nearly fainted even i did wear my mask . So i asked my mum, "ma, go buy oxygen tanks like diver use one", and she laughed. Are the bird shit harmful?

So far i found few problems. The first problem with my BH is that there are lizards. Not sure got mouse or not. But i think my parents found few solutions for it. I will try to discuss with them more when i am on holiday which is next week. They operate the humidifer for 3 times a day. 45mins each time. Sometime im worried if it is too much or too little . Should i get thermostat instead? And i told my mum to use fujibin humidifer for downstair one. Just use one since the fujibin humidifier can cover a large area.

i think they are using some sort of chemical product/potion or whatever it is. Im not really sure yet but they told me the liquid thing actually is to prevent ants from entering the BH. Odourless chemical i believe. Lets see how effective it is when i go back next week.
Just to share some of my BH pics: note the 2nd picture. The last plank is too close to the wall. That time constructor

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thanks for sharing WW.

Actually my area is rural and it is near the end of Sungai Rejang which connects to China sea. We are not the pioneer BH, because we build in 2008. The earliest is around 8-9 years ago. Around 3 BHs were built that time. Without them, i dont think our BH can be successful. . Pure luck i guess.

You said u enter ur BH without wearing mask? . How can u survive the smell? Even my eyes feel 'pedas' when clean the BS. How frequent do u enter ur BH for checking?

Somewhere near swimming pool location isnt? i have a few friends built their Bird House around there.

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Added on February 24, 2011, 11:25 amIf i were you, i will choose the chicken coup humidifier instead of ultrasonic one. Because the cost is much cheaper and easy to maintain.

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how do u clean the taiwan humidifer? Mine is pretty dirty and one of it malfunction. Do u clean ur humidifier frequently? alot of bird shit

Swiftlets over here are weird. Sometimes they dont tend to play around at the monkey house. Sometime make me wonder if my swiftlet population decrease as well. Luckily, after we count the nests, they are actually increasing.

20% make little money? I thought 20% make big money. No?

For my case, i start to harvest when they are 700+ nests which was last year. We harvest around 1.5-2 months. Now i think they are 2k nests, so we have to monitor 2-3weeks once & if condition is flavourable, we will harvest it. I think it is bad idea to only harvest 3 times in a year.

Max harvest per month i have seen is 7-10kg in my area. 10xRM4 = 40k per month. Average harvest for 2 storey BH? There are thousand of 2storey BHs, if u want the average it might be less than 500g(because of the failure rate). It is very hard to define successful BH or not. For me, if it costs u 400-500k to build 1 BH, after 5 years not even yielding 1kg per month, i consider fail. It depends on your area actually. For my 2storey BH @ RM140k (built in August 2008) until today, now around 2000 nests. I dont know how much is the average yield either. Not consistent. This month we manage to harvest less than 1kg i think, as mentioned by West Wing there are alot of eggs and chicks over the last 2 months. This is indeed very true. There is once we harvest 4kg and that was around december 2010-january 2011. And we have not even get back our capital yet, hopefully by the end of this year. You see, even for 2.5years @ 2k nests BH which i consider good and satisfy, still need minimum 3 years to get back the capital.

It is definitely not easy to success in this field. If i have invested RM200k in Public Mutual unit trust 5 years ago, i would have gain 150% which worth RM500k now (dont believe? check out Public Mutual thread under my post). But if i build a RM200k BH 5 years ago, by now i might only break even with my 200k capital or more to profit zone but definitely wont get you near 500k. However, it is different story if you build it and sell it.

anyone manage to harvest bird nests these few days? I was quite surprised with the amount this time. 3 times higher than previous month which was full with eggs and chicks. This thread abit quite though.

In my area, the bird fledged already. No i dont mean the nest increment is 3 times . It is the amount we harvest compared to last month How about your area?

Do you guys know what is the market price for bird house recently? I have done some reading and someone say it is 1k per nest. Let say if a bird house have 1k of nests, the bird house itself worth RM 1 million. Is this really true?