You may want to try an addition to your bottle trick....thread the cable through a wind mill...was shared on this forum many moons ago for the same problem and was reported to be successful.

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Added on May 17, 2012, 4:45 pmAs for man made food for the swiftlets, no harm producing or buying although it will certainly draw in birds but whether staying or not shall be another topic to discuss.

If you have seen ants/termites fledgling time, then you shall understand as thousand of swiftlets can be seen feeding off the flying insects and how they know, it must be their keen sight to be able to see from so far away.

I admit that I never have use these food for swiftlets and did help some friends to buy. No positive feedback from any of them on the improvement/advantage of using them. Infact, I still have another 2 unused cans and I should have to use it myself in my new BH as I wasn't been paid for it by a friend that didn't come to collect them after been reminded many times. Next time, must collect payment before helping to order...........Tak untong kena rugi lagi. 

Anyone here using the swiftlet's feed here?

Once saw fruit flies at the roving 1 mth after activating insect fed and at the same time swiftlets flying low at chest height believe feeding on flies. Usually they fly high nearer to ceiling. 

Some increase in nests not sure coincident. But only 1 bucket of fed weight 3kg, wonder how much insect can it produce? Tuck Fook kind of mass production more effective lah. Home made few buckets type just extra junk foods. Probably helps just for few not main colonies.

IMO more benefit to those selling insect fed than benefit the birds. Home made cheaper but how much can you make. 1 lorry of EFB or cow dung more effective anytime.

Oh Boy! When you post that 200Kgs only Rm1300/Kg and I was thinking maybe I will buy cos even 10 days ago, I was offered Rm1500 for corners and your's must be a blessing if I am a buyer with mostly AB, I think. Just imagine, at Rm2K, I shall make quite alot for a long Holiday @ China, my @2nd. Home...joking only....no news to my wife or I sleep in the hall tonight.

Where to keep these nests cos my store is full with my own. Now, EBN seem to be the cheaper type of health food in the market with others going up and up as people are aware of healthy living. Instead of trying hard of seling to buyers, try selling gms wise to locals and you can sell @ Rm4K/per K this way. I have already started selling cleaned nests @ Rm6K now to locals and no complaints as many want to buy, cook and eat immediately. Have you ever wonder the difficulties in cleaning a nest if you don't know the method cos once, a guy bought 200 gms from me and came back a week later to buy cleaned nests. He told me that he throw away the nests after the impossible task of trying to remove all feathers and in the end only making him almost blind and frustrated and throw everything down the dustbin including the bowl and tweeter.

Maybe, you can think over my suggestion of doing something to help to pay off your Along.

To Patrons of Jalan Pasar shops,

Regarding the electronics shops at Jalan Pasar; any particular better shops to recommend? Better meaning well stock in terms of the ranges of inventories for swiflet farming usages and reasonable prices and more or less honest sellers that do not sell consumers faulty equipment or junks.

Hi aeiou228,

Thanks a lot for your info.

Need some advice from sifus here. Lately my BHs have very serious flea problem, go into BH fleas crawl all over my feet and you all know how itchy it is for a few days to weeks after these fleas bite you.

I've sprayed Fendona in my BHs every 2 weeks and everything seems under control, but the Fendona is very expensive la, one litre bottle like $70-80? Any cheaper alternatives or any other brand name that kills those BH fleas more efficiently?

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Let me teach you a way to make back some of the lost income from EBN.

Process you own nests and the most easier and simplest way is to do it into cake form and if you are at my age (cannot focus near too well), employ someone SYT  to do the job.
Let say you employ one @ Rm600/month and even new young girl can easily clean  1.5K  (100% cleaned) in a month.
Calculation/justification:
1. 1 Kg of patahan or 3S birdnest can only fetch @  Rm1K Max.. presently
2, Cleaning worker cost even 1Kg per month            Rm600
Total cost of birdnest            Rm1,600
You can easily sell the nests @ Rm3500/Kg and faster if you sell at smaller quantity like few hundreds grams giving you additional income of about Rm1300 per month per worker more than selling those rejects @ less than Rm1K. Id you don't believe, check it out @ medical shop and you will find that you are giving special offer @ this price.
Addition to this, you can proudly claim that your nests are 100% pure and direct from the farm…. just like what I preached all the time.

Thank me later when you sell more than 10K of nests and roughly about Rm13,000 more………

"Yen Pien" and maybe someone can provide pic of it here for our friend. Well, size and shape can come in many other shapes like heart if you are going for the V day sale or come out with special designs for special occasion....only if you come out with the mold of your design.

Sifus,

If I were to service loan RM3k per month, to breakeven 500 birdnest is required in the BH assuming birdnest selling price is RM3K per kg.  Every month harvest 500 bn X 0.2 equal to 100 bn per month which translates to RM3K. In short so long there are 500 bn in e bh, i can get RM 3k per month which will enable me to service BH loan. Is the calculation correct? But then again is it easy to get so many bn given that there are 66BH constructed simultaneously in that particular area? Sure got stiff competition.

Since I have no time to take nests out and I am banned by my wife for venturing too often to China ( just kidding), someone please forward some proofs if nests really cannot be taken out at our airports... then, we got good reasons to bombard these Dato and gang.... He even told me that VHM or any other certifications can easily obtained and if I encounter any difficulties, he would help me out..........but I wasn't interested al all with the processing of nests in the first place.

Guys, I would like to do a online payment. I have no idea about swift account/payment. Can someone explain it?

Thanks in advance

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