To those who are not familiar with Birdnest farming their opinion will be more towards nuisance especially those noise from birdcall sound and perhaps the smell of the bird shit.
To those who are fond of Birdnest farming, they look at it as a goldmine ready to be tap. U taps this precious white gold from the wild. Yes from these wild swiftlets.
Each grade A Birdnest can easily fetch around Ringgit 50. Just imagine that U have a birdhouse and every three month U can harvest 1000 nests? Well it is not much but let me multiply that with RM50: RM50 X 1000 = RM50,000 per harvest.
What happen after that? After each harvest the number of nests will increase by about 5 to 10% every three months. Can U imagine 5 years after that 1000 nests that you harvested? Yes it will multiply exponentially to a figure that I do not want to calculate for U but try to use your mathematical genius in U.
Do U know that the farmer do close to nothing except visit the birdhouse once a month to check on the birdhouse sound system and the humidifier and of course do the harvesting once every 3 months?
If U look at the yearly world market consumption, for year 2006 the value of Birdnest traded world wide was estimated to be 13 billion Ringgit.
Malaysia exported the most RM300 million the same year.
Where and what other business can be so easy and with very little investment like Birdnest farming?
If U compare between the conventional business and Birdnest farming U see these differences:
a) In Birdnest business U own a property and U modify or convert the shop lot (two stories 20’ x 70’) to be a birdhouse. This will cost you in the range of about RM 150,000 to RM 200,000 investment. You actually buy an asset.
b) Once that is done your monthly utility (electric and water) bill will be about 15 + 10 = RM25 a month. If you run a conventional business, your utility bill will be at least RM 500 to RM 800 a month. You have three to four wall mounted air-conditions, ceiling fans, lighting, toilets, copy machine, three PCs, printers, door bell, fridge and so forth that suck your electricity bills and water bills.
c) Your employee is actually the wild birds and they come in and stay on a volunteer basis. They are not paid with any salaries. You are free of payments to the EPF, Perkeso, Training Courses, Medical Leave, Public Holidays, Mother Died Holiday, Father died holiday, Kid Going to School, Wife Give Birth holidays, Pull Teeth Holiday, Kid Is Sick Holiday, In Laws In Town Holidays, Anak Kawin Holiday and so on. The birds volunteer to stay in your house and make babies. Before they make their babies they need to build their nest.
d) Once the babies are big and fly away, we can harvest the nest and immediately after harvesting they will build a new one.
e) We just harvest and sell to ready buyers and you are paid in cash. No need to send invoice and chase after payment.
f) These wild birds breed three times a year. So if in the first year you have 100 nests in your bird house the next year there will be have a total population of: 300 (new birds) + 100 (old birds) = 400. If these 400 breed three times the following year U will have 1,200 + 400 = 1,600 nests. What about the following year and the year after that? They will continue to grow until your house is full (Subject to the house condition and how U take care of the house).
g) In a conventional business, every employee that you employ is actually a burden. For every bird that stays in your house, it is an asset. The moment you employ a worker, you are required to take care of him as if he is your son. If you do not the authority will punish you for not performing your obligation as a good employee and can bring you to court and put you behind bars. The birds that stay in your house will never take you to court????
h) The property that you own will escalate in value at an incredible rate which you will never ever get from any other property investments. It will be based on the number of nests that are available during the transaction. Each nest is worth RM 1,000. Example if your birdhouse have 1000 nests, your birdhouse now command at the minimum 1,000 nest X RM1000 = RM 1,000,000.
i) Birdhouse farm will allow you to make money not only from the nests but also the bird shit, the eggs, the baby birds and the knowledge that U gain from looking after a birdhouse. There are people who are willing to buy these items and nothing is lost.
So U sit down and do nothing except harvest the nests every two to three months without too much headache.
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