Agree with you brother west wing. Congratulations on your purchase of agriculture land for birdhouse. Salute you for you for your guts. I am sure you will be successful in your new birdhouse. How big, high do you intend to build? Entrance type, kindly share with us newbies.

About young birds, anybody know how long it take for them to mature and start building nests. Tried to get from books but still no clue. Some say 8 months yet some says 2 years?????

Normally how often do we harvest the nest. Is it every month or every 45 days? Mind to share with us when is the best time to harvest so as to get the maximum numbers of nest.

Thanks

Hi, Lucas1, Bro West Wing,

All in all congratulations for comments. They are very useful to all swiftlet century, hotel, etc operators. I would like to classify it as swiftlets ranching as mentioned by the lady from veterinary department. But it should as mentioned by Lucas1 this industry should be classified under cottage industry too, the problem is that some operators are getting too big to be called cottage industry.

Anyway come 26 August, 2010, hope to see the light at the end of the tunnel, if the date mentioned is correct.

Just my 2cents.

Today Nanyang newspaper east coast section. Beginning 1 January, 2011 all birdhouse in Terengganu are required to apply for license from veterinary dept. All must join a local association in order to get a license.

All birdhouse owners, sifus, foremmers please provide feed back. Why it it compulsory to join an association in order to get a license. Is this amounting to day light roberry? Why other business do not have this requirement of MUST loin a local association to get a license?

http://www.nanyang.com.my/NewsCenter/artic...07&SID=8&CID=21

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Uncle Ben where are u. This newbie needs your help so am i. Mine is a stand alone birdhouse in rubber plantation, results only so so la. Found out during last harvest last week the nests are very wet and one or two show sign of pinkish colour. I do not operate any humidifier yet humidity is very high. Please advice all sifu how to solve this. Thanks

Thank Ben, actually my birdhouse floor is made of concrete but humidity has been on the high side all the time. Some people suggest to open more ventilation holes, but the problem is its wall and not easy to hack open again. I am also worried if more work done to renovate the building, the few hundred birds will be scared and start shifting to other birdhouses.

I still remember you when Pak Hen conducted course here in Pulau Kapas, Kuala Terengganu more than 3 ago already. Can you help me to get some sound from Pak Hen for my own use. Thought of changing to new sound for external and internal but I only have 2 types only. What if I fix another hexagonal speakers on roof top?

Thanks very much for your assistance.

Yes indeed we are all blessed. Just see what happens to other countries. Egypt in turmoil, Australia crippled by flood, Indonesia by volcanoes, U the SA cyclones etc etc.

Just to add a few lines for this business, it is not that simple as just to built and let the birds come to multiply. We still have to do a lot of monitoring, and improvement to make it a success. If encounter any problems this forummers elders sorry the worlds use are always ever ready to assist. We are indeed a BLESSED LOTS.

THANKS GOD FOR THAT AND HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL, MAY THIS RABBIT YEAR BRINGS LOTS OF HARVESTS OF WHITE GOLD TO ALL!

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Added on February 6, 2011, 8:56 pmHi Ben,

Glad to see your posting in this forum. Mind sharing your new BH design which is burglar prove? To built a 3 stories in 4 weeks is very fast. How I hope you are here in Terengganu to share your knowledge.

I am now having problem with mold on nesting planks and just used copper brush to clean off, hope it is sufficient. Another is most tweeters need rewiring due to poor wiring system used by the contractors. May be those in KT who have good wiring contractors can help me. I just found out why no birds building nests at the other end because the internal tweeters at this end are not working

This post has been edited by swiftlailai: Feb 6 2011, 08:56 PM

Hi Brother West Wind how are you? I have been hibernating so quite some times already. Hope every 1 is fine here. The correct word to use is i think SWIFTLET RANCHING. This phrase was used by Veterinary Dept Dr. Fazilah during our seminar in Kuala Terengganu/Pulau Kapas many years ago.

2. I would like to get members opinion here about nesting planks....should it be kept clean while installing, no dirt on the timbers. mine a lot on earth stain used to seal the gaps between ceiling and nesting planks and according to the person who visited my birdhouse, he asked me to change all the planks. Some are also stained due to high humidity because the previous CON-SUL-TANT used light red meranti and not dark red meranti like Meranti Bukit or Nemesu. Sad to say that mine is a failed one with only less than 200 nests after 3 years... Please help...

3. As to the tweeters cable, ya they used cheap China cable and most of the tweeters ( cheap ones too) are not working. I have changed all the wires and using good tweeters. The work was just completed 3 weeks ago. The friend now advice me to change the nesting planks.....more ringgit will fly away.....and it is getting difficult now (financially).

4. My is a stand alone in rubber/fruit plantation land of 2 acres situated in Terengganu.

Ideas and suggestions please....Thanks for your time.

This post has been edited by swiftlailai: Sep 21 2011, 11:30 PM

Thanks Bros,

So no need to change nesting planks. That is good news to me.

I am hoping for the best after changing tweeters and speaker cables.

What more shall I do to hansten the increase in nests?