What is the Optimum Size of Nesting Box On your Ceiling !!!

I have always forgot to ask myself on the question of "What is the optimum box size of your nesting wood on your ceiling"?

Well we know that the plank should be made of special type of wood. Preferable red Meranti.

We also know that the plank should be with a minimum of 3cm thick and the width of about 15cm (in hot country) and 20 cm (in a cold country).

Now let us examine what is the optimum box size that we need to place on our ceiling and why?

Every single inch available on your nesting room ceiling can be considered a valuable piece of estate land in a big town. They are you asset because if you use them carefully you will get more revenue from those number of birdnest you can harvest per square meter.

Given a chance I will make sure that the ceiling design will be my number one consideration in all my birdhouse. I will make sure that the nesting area will have an optimun lines of nesting planks running perpendicular to the entrance hole and I will crossed them with shorter strips of plank to form a box.

The best box size recomended, which will give you the highest number of nests is per square meter is said to be 30cm X 100 cm box dimension.

Using 30cm X 100 cm box, each 4 X 4 meters nesting areas will allow U to have about 21 perpendicular plank of 4 meters each with three crossed. Total number of planks is 21 + 3 = 24 lines. Two sides for each plank so you will have 24 X 2 = 48 times 400cm = 19,200 cm.

Each nest on the everage will be around is about 12.7cm plus a gap of 1 cm apart. This will give you a total of 13.7 cm per nest. So in a 16 square meter nesting room you can get a maximum number of 19,200/ 13.7 = 1401 nests.

Every kilo on the everage you can get about 120 nests. Thus per 4 X 4 meters with a box arrangement will give you a maximum of 1401/120 = 11.675 kilograms.

If you have 4 of the 4 X 4 nesting areas on one floor you can look forward for a maximum of 46.7 kilograms of white gold on your ceiling.

Not bad at all only if all the planks are occupied of course !!!

The figures calculated are estimates and shall not be used as actual. You might need to deduct those areas used for holes between floors and staircase.