When you are old and so used to BH, there isn't any excitement in visiting one and not even your own. My latest collection is completed and one day before the handling over the BH, the Indo subcon rang me and told me," Boss, banyak burung dalam dan masok juga control room!" Mari tengok tengok and I wasn't excited and didn't go to see what happening. The next day, the Indo man came to my office and asked when I was going to pay him for the services ie the remainder of the uncompleted work left by the Kontractor (mind you more than RM45K).........and he show me his Ipad (boy!, even orang Indo worker has a Ipad now) with video of my BH and the birds flying cycling inside and in the control room.........I was definitely glad and paid him without even checking the work done. Two days later, I went to the BH and I believe the the tweeters wiring is wrong and amps wrongly connected but I just left it as it it and now is about 2 months....even the work terrible and bad but I hope that the birds don't mind staying lah.

No more excited over the matter any more and reasons could be.
1. Fed up with farming already.
2. Getting too old to meddle or repair 15ft height BH. Tried once to climb a 12ft. ladder (expensive one lah) and I felt unsafe up there.
3. BH doesn't excite me anymore
4. Possible that the low price has negative effect on me.
5. My son told me to sell off all BHs, retire and spend well as if I don't, after I died and surely will, they will sell off the BHs as they have no interest in it........
6. Friends asked me to visit their BHs recently never get a "OK" from me and before, I was always ready to go at any time of the day.

So, in my case, the proverb of "I care for the swiftlets for 3 years and the swiftlets will care for my 3 generations" are all gone as when I die so are all my BHs.....and and with present price, you will lucky that your next generation can survive on EBN.

Another story from me and hope that you like it.

Praying + Action = Change out BN

has no one been readingthe star world page 39 of 6 nov 2012?

I wonder if it is factual or................hearsay etc ertc etc etc etcetc etc

Brother WW,
Prices in Thailand fell just as bad despite the fact that CNY is coming.  Birdnest Auction yields vary from 1.4 - 1.9k Rm/kg.  Sell to final consumers (if you manage to get one) give better price 2-2.4k Rm/kg.
Cleaned nests fetch approx 3.x-4.x KRm/kg.

I understand you all are pissed by your Goman/Authority of not helping enough on the matter.  Couldn't agree more but we all have to keep in mind that this is not up to your Goman only.  It's clear that China is putting up some kind of barriers on the luxury import items, no matter what the Chinese spokesmen said.  Nitrate is 1 thing and there are many more factor & procedures to go through that will dishearten any legit BN exporters.  That only leaves submarine(word choice for safety sake) the only alternative.  Now the Chinese have this submarine checked, while legit export is still very troubling to get done, all harvested birdnests have nowhere to go. 

Now in Thailand, where its Gomen not yet able to produce any legit BN exporters, whoever involved in the submarine to HK are controling the market.  They make quick bucks like you said, with no need to build BHs. 
Sad but we have to admit now is definitely their times.  Only hope is that our and your gomen are strong enough to negotiate, or trade some kind of trade privileges for exporting BN.  Then we might see light at the end of the tunnel.

Until then, I don't know what to say really...

For me, I sell some here and there, keeping the rest, hoping the current prices are already at the bottom of all time.

Perhilitan signboard on the nest export still at KLIA as I left the airport early this week. Just a banner behind the column. Nobody bother to look at it with current market.

Oii, just buang tu banner lah. Truly eyes sore.

A person that owns lot of BH. He says that big BN factory in Puchong will buy raw EBN paying up to $1800 to $2000, but the EBN you need to provide the registration number of the BH it comes from.

First time I heard something like this too.

What are you implying at? Our situation for now is already total defeat and dark days. Left nuke only.

The same buyer wants to buy the at lowest possible even market prices are said to be up is typical...

Lately, there have been news about poorly managed BH causing problems to neighboring residents or lower floor tenants in various areas. Some farmers have even given up the venture and revert back their BH to original for economic sense. Personally, I felt very  much the root cause of it is poor harvest and lower prices of the BN. Government should also take the blame for not helping ALL. Having said that, forum members who do the maintenance work consistently even without nests harvested for years have my greatest respect and admiration.

No bird shit :- all swiftlet must shit in toilet or farmers must force them wear bird diapers !


Bomba compliance :- all swiftlet house must install fire extinguisher and farmers also train swiftlet to practise fire drill !


This Selangor government is really f*cking stupid !!

WW, what you mean is despite all the Hu Ha, ban lifting by China la, prediction of price increase la, this bullshits la, that bullshit la, all over in our media, the price of EBN stay the same ?

Not a single f*cking cent of improvement ?