Mind to share the link to the news? So far i havent really receive such sms tho.

I've been using Fendona since a year ago, every 2 weeks I spray. So if that's what you're saying shouldn't have this problem ma.

okay uncle ww, I also understand.

What I concern is the way to prevent mold on wood plank, because my is new bh, planing to wash the ceiling, wall including plank after the construction completed.

thank you.

Thinking back of wonderful Yesteryears, I joyfully recall the followings:

1. The birds find no place to make their nests and they even do it at electrical wires and even at ceiling hanging down, making the nests look like a baby cradles.
2. The birds produce nests multiple nests in a row of more than a foot long that HM once said that it was made by the king of swiftlets but we old timers know too well to be fooled. Maybe polygamy, possible with 10 wife living together in a row. hahahaha.
3. The birds dive into the entrance like hundreds  bees making impossible to count.
4. That you wore safety glasses when in the BH so that the bids would not hit you in the eyes accidently.
5. That you picked up many young swiftlets off the road during other BHs harvesting time and put them into your BH so that they did have a chance to survive which they do because all the young birds needed were one more day or two to fly safely.
6. That we saw hundreds of newly fledged swiftlets cheerfully playing near the hill before flying away into the sky; like parent watching their children grown up.
6. Many other sweet memories.

Those were the days, those were the days...I told my friends.

Just to share.
Formally only Chinese buyers but now, there are afew Malays Buyers and they are offering quite reasonable price. Afew weeks ago, I sold some to one Malay buyer at RM2400/kg and they aren't fuzzy or selective unlike some Chinaman Buyers who would take away some very dirty one or too small ones.

Hope that you would sell to anyone buying at the best price and not to only one buyer cos in most such cases, he would never offer you the best price as he know that you sure sell to him. be smart and check out with other buyers in the market and you may find that all this while, you have been cheated..like one Chinese Buyer offered me only Rm1800/kg for the same nests that I sold to the Malay Buyer for Rm2400/Kg. I just asked for Rm2K and still he refused by complaining that my nests are not white and feathered. Luckily for me that he didn't accept Rm2K proposal otherwise I would be losing RM4K for the 10KGs nests.

Owls do not swallow their prey whole.  It usually only eats the choice bits, sometimes only the insides.

This can be due to Owls or hawks. Now is the season of migrating sparrow hawks.

lao shu

go to shop and buy lao shu poison and mix it which nice food for them to eat e.g. peanut. hope it help you

After you catch the mouse, did the killing of your birds stop? I have similar thing happened to my bird house few days ago, still don't know which predators doing that.....Maybe tom I will try to put in some mouse trap ...Good luck to me....

Try to find entry point of the rats to your BH and close it up. Get rats poison that people use for palm oil plantation. Within weeks can kautim if you managed to find and close the entry point.

From own experience, rats breeding in my BH, managed to close the entry point, by hand killed near 6-7 offsprings trapped near the toilet with spade    (grose ). Rat poison did the rest of work finished of the parents in the next visit. Any vertical pipes or wood that allow the rats to climb cover them with aluminum sheets.

Left behind like your case feathers all over the floor.  rip to both birds  n rats

Hi Just caught a musang in our BH. There were dead birds with only their wings found in certain places inside . Those farmers growing fruit trees around their BH be aware that the musang is also into birds.

Also for those who have or are scare of bird mites going into their ears try spraying fendona onto earplugs for 7 or 8 ( their breeding cycle) consecutive nites or longer  before you sleep or every time you enter your BH. You can buy these plastic plugs  along with swimming goggles in department stores. Tried buying these plugs separately but they wouldn't sell. Or wear a shower cap before you enter your BH !!

At last managed to get this swiftlet killer accidentally.

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