hi every one, i am new in this forum, thanks Jeff for bringing me here, took me two days to digest postings here, many thanks to seeseng, swiftbuild & others who shared their valuable input  . i owned two bird hosues, one is about 2 years and the other one is about 6 months, will start another one in kuala krai soon, anyone from kuala Krai ? any advise for this location ? 

Thanks seeseng,

Thanks for your quick reply . At this moment I plan to involve in this field .As for your info my relatives do involve in this field but unfortunately he failed to archive great result, so this moment I am helping him searching for help from this forum.

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Added on July 12, 2007, 3:47 pmhi seeseng ,

I read the article that you and swiftbuild and other members do cd exchanging may I know how to do this and can I take part ??

kseng_99 how long your relatives' farm being operating? How bad's the result?  Sometimes everything we've done is right but still so so result only. Many people do not see the importance of competition.  Well there're people think open a new farm near successful farms is a good thing. e.g. 50meter away from a monthly 10kg result farm. To me that's a huge disadvantage. A farm can produce 10kg monthly mean it's good in almost everything. Are you confident enaugh to attract the birds over?? Is your farm higher altitute and better micro habitat than the 10kg farm?  If not better be worry lor. There'll be problem even to attract your first batch of bird to stay.    Most successful farms are pioneers of the area or lone operators of the area.

CD exchange days are over. Because we don't want too many people using same type of chirping sound. It's not good.

So skynest which class your farm in? Consider successful? Multi directional sound commercial product already out for 3 years by Nest Tech. Sure many will make themselves 1. So far my whole state nobody using it yet. Originally made 4,6, 8 directional tweeters for CD sound test purpose. To be first to use maybe later other farms not happy lah. Then lately a new farm near my house added a 4 directional tweeter. So if I put up also not the 1st lah. 
The pic was my 1st prototype of 8 direction. The one installed up there have all tweeters facing 45d upwards. Actually made upwards for rain water draining out. Then added silicon to all contact points to water proof/anti rust them. My neighbours won't complain 1 because they're a lot more noisy than mine how to complain   Complain or not depend on level of volume. I had my volume set to quite low. Many people said my volume sort of low. But if can lure birds to come play enaugh lor.

Swiftlet Farming Techniques :-

Anyone interested to start discussing swiftlet Farming Techniques?

Guess, I will start first, currently we have two inlet method, either Monkey or open roof. What is the pro and con on this two method?

Monkey House :-
pro:
1) low light intensity
2) more stable inhouse temperature
3)

con:
1) depends on the height of yr inlet house. Birds might difficult to fly out.
2) Noise pollution
3)

open roof type:
pro :
1) no noise pollution
2) Birds can fly out easily

con :
1) Too bright
2) unstable inhouse temperature
any feedback from any sifu here.   

con :

A 5 storey farm. 5th floor haven't completed doing fist sound test. Estimated 300-400 birds came.