Hi to all SFT members

I happened to stumble on this forum while surfing the internet for information on swiftlet farming equipment
and it's such a pleasure to discover the vast amount of knowledge and experience being shared selflessly on this forum.
Before I continue on, here's a little introductory background on myself ... I am basically helping my family (my parents), who is in the
midst of running a swiftlet farm in Tawau, Sabah. Our farm is built on the 2nd and uppermost floor of a 4 storeys shophouses about 4km
from our town centre where swifltets are in abundance due to exising neighbouring farms.

Prior to this, my parents attended a seminar on swiftlets farming in KL which provided them with starting out booklets and handbooks.
We applied for a breeding licence from the Sabah Wildlife Board before engaging a contractor through recommendation from one of our
neighbouring breeders. The conversion of our shophouse to the swiflets' habitat took about 9 months as the pace of work over here is
really very slow and laid back.
By the end of the construction some time in March this year, we had experienced our first break-in whereby our audio
equipments were stolen. We have since improved the security by installing additional iron grilles and some electrocuting fences on the
ceilings and high windows. All and all, quite a considerable amount of money had been spent on the conversion. Fortunately, the shops belong to
my parents therefore the overheads of running is quite low after.

It wasn't smooth sailing in the first few months as we noticed our farm attracted only passer-by swiftlets. We reckoned something must have
gone wrong somewhere but didn't really know the source of its problem. After a chance meeting with a visiting consultant from the wildlife board,
we learnt that we might improve the situation by scattering swiftlet faeces around the premises and changing the audio cds - one to attract swiftlets
externally and the other to be played inside (before my dad used only 1 CD given to us by our neighbour).

Having made the necessary adjustments (in less than 2 weeks), my dad now estimated by looking at the birds' droppings, there are probably around 8-10 pairs that are currently visiting our breeding ground. We are now looking into ways to improve and enhance the habitat. I have read with interest on the hormone from Crystals and the hygrostats with the sensor (the one mentioned by SeeSeng) as currently we are using the mist spray controlled by a timer switch. I understand that one of the suppliers carrys the product but I think the price is a bit too steep for us as we probably need about 3 to 4 of it. I'm just curious whether it is possible to get this hygrostats from Singapore
or Taiwan as my friends over there might be able to source for me. I remembered I bought our humidity and temperature indicator (made in Germany) from the 24hr Mustafa dept store in Little India, Singapore. Think it costs less than SGD45.

Would really apprecaite fellow forumers here who can help.
Cheers,
Brandon