Looks like all  the farmers are defeated by the syndicates as they managed to corner the market and the price dropped and has not recovered?

Think on the better side. Since EBN is so cheap, why not eat more EBN often for health and here, we take Birdnest 3 times a week and
my wife seem to add birdnest to everything.

Yesterday, we had red bean with EBN and it tasted good and you may want to try it. Not point thinking of price of EBN as what in the Newspaper are mostly rubbish even it was reported that our PM was quoted as saying that raw EBN can be exported to China very soon.

If the Govt. want to help, they would have help us longago and promises are
birdshit and I no longer want to appeal to anyone as words are not longer respectful or honest. Let them have their way and even if all the processing plants in Malaysia are allow to export, the price of EBN will remain low as those having the processing plants also have theirEBN and when are they going to buy your's  unless you sell low and also big, white and less feather EBN.

Sooner or later, the price will return but not like before but maybe a year or two. Meanwhile, sell the better ones and eat the rest for own health to wait out the storm.

NORMAL IT WILL STAGNENT AT THAT STAGE OF 5000 NEST.. MY SIMPLE OPINION..

CURRENT SITUATION AND 10 YEARS AGO SITUATION ARE DIFFERENT..
MOST OF THE BH NOW WILL GET STAGNENT IN DIFFERENT STAGES B4 THE NEST COUNT DROPS..
NEW BH WILL GET STAGNENT AT FEW HUNDRED NESTS N OLDER BH WILL GET STAGNENT AT FEW THOUSAND NESTS..
STAGNENT BH ARE DUE TO MANY MANY REASONS.... ALL INVOLVE KACASUSU, FLIGHT PATH, BLA BLA BLA...
DIFFERENT BH WILL HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS FOR THIS PROBLEM....

I COULD BE WRONG.. THIS IS WHAT I WAS TOLD...

Everything is important as EBN collected at different time of the year show the size and texture of EBN....good time get bigger EBNand bad time, thinner nests and too hot and too wet all give different type of nests.

Good point when you pointed out that those BH ownersthat harvest nests before the birds have the opportunity to fledged and still have growth in their BH; where they get their new birds, obviously from youand me...........they are getting birds as they are mostly successful BH shaving at least  few thousand of nests with their smell of broken eggs and old BHs..smeared with years of birds living there.

With so many Bhs going for so little new birds, the seniors always have the advantages unless you have something up your sleeve.

Obviously, that my opinion on the matter only.

I'm still alive but too sad to post, just read.

Somebody trying to break into my BH, so far cutting the fence and probably deterred by my other preventive methods. (not to be discussed).

Harvesting nests and cannot sell, is the major headache.

Power blackouts is not a problem. Buy computer UPS system with a large battery. 2 x 7 Ah should run the internal sound for an hour. If your blackouts last longer then you need more batteries, just parallel with the UPS battery.

If you already got about 500 birds, no sound for a little while is not a problem.

Now back to my sulking.

Brother me too got fungus problem at the lower floor, since that time i stop using humidifier at lower floor, but upper floor there is no problem for me so far. This season nest whiter and bigger 

Hi Mois, sorry for asking a noob question. What do you mean by Banci? If nest is 180 degree but the bottom side is empty due to using fake nest & nest build on backside of speaker, this type of nest clasify as what category?

Hi ! Like to check the status (financial & emotional) of all those bird nest farmers out there ....
Still licking your wounds or just accepted the 'low price' regime and move on ??

Many of you still keeping tonnes of bird nests in your fridges or disposing of without a single feather left ?

Please share ! I am a beginner in this industry and just want to know the current status.

Thank you very much for not vending your frustration on me .....!!

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SOS! Discover termite in BH ,sprayed fendona around plank, don't know if it will works, masters kindly advise.

I am just a beginner
I did not build a bird house from scratch, instead I took advantage of the depress bird nest market to buy direct from a successful farm house (around 500 nest) with knocked down price... I have yet to do my first harvest
Need to learn from all the Sifu , masters, and experts here
Hope that in the near future China allow import again so everybody especially Master West Wing can cheer up and write more here !!!

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Is the current price (1000-1500) is the lowest in the past 20 years ?

Do you think it will go down further to, say, 500-700 per kilo, ... And for how long ?

2-5 years bear run ?

Or next year the price will rebound slowly back to 4500-5000 regime ?

Lets share our opinions here and see whether this industry is still worth venturing into ?

   

to share with fellow swiftlets farmers, a new I got from Kwang Min Yit Poh dated 28-8-13

Basically it said the price of bird nest has risen from 1200 /kg to 1650/ kg , is it true ?

I found most of the news related to bird nests are from Chinese dailies