One of the most exciting moments of your life in swiftlet farming is when you have your birdhouse up and starts it operation.
Yes you took more then two months to convert the shop lot to Birdhouse and now you switch the call music, both internal and external, to welcome those wild birds.
The moment of truth started. You have these visions that there will be lots of birds coming into the house and within the next few days they will occupy your house and only your house.
You have this anxiety that your birdhouse is the best and no one else can be any superior then you. You have your sleepless night and wanted to get up as soon as the dawn breaks so that you will be at the birdhouse watching those birds circling above the house, coming in and make your house their new home.
The truth is that after three weeks you enter the house and there are none. Do you know why?
Because what you imagined was not what really happened. There were no sign of nests coming up. When you enter, about noon, all the birds are away foraging.
Hei, what is happening man? Why are the birds not staying? Hey, my Sifu have bluff me and I want to report to the Police !!!!(Some crazy things that comes to your mind)
The only thing that might see are some signs of bird shits on the floor just below those tweeters. If there are many spots then you are on the right track but if there are none then you are doomed.
Maybe three weeks is not good enough. You need to give at least three months.
Okay how about the roving room? You might want to see the number of bird shits on the four walls of the roving room. See how many of them. If there are none then again you know that no bird have entered the house. If there are some, then you know that they have entered and you have some chance to succeed.
These events are things that a new birdhouse owner will go through. Some are good but some are disappointing. All in all the results are based on the preparation that you have done before you convert or built the birdhouse.
If you have done your homework, like conducted the birdcall tests (many times) and ensure that your entrance holes are in the right direction, you will not be disappointed. Or else you have to quickly look at the next options as quickly as possible.
What are the options that you have if there are no birds coming in after 3 months?
My frank opinions look like this:
1) You might consider giving yourself another three months of agony to see what will happen. Just do nothing and hope for the best. (This option by not doing anything is very silly).
2) Change the birdcall sound to a new and better sound (especially external). Check again after three weeks. (Also very silly. You need to do more then changing the sound. Don't be stupid???)
2A) Add some fake nests close to the tweeters. Say 20 pieces. (You are getting better)
3) Relooked at the house temperature and humidity. Get some instrument that will chart the exact movement of the temperature plus humidity for hot days on 24 hours for three days at least. Actually this is something that U should do before you blast that birdcall music. (Hmm I am impressed with your progress. Okay go on).
3A) Add a few more water pool on each floor. Let it be more humid and maybe cooler !! ( You sound great and you got some future to be a successful birdhouse owner)
4) Do one more test on the room brightness? Are they within the recommended lux? If yes you are okay, if not you need to reduce them by placing a divider or canvas at the entrance from roving to nesting room to achieve your room lux. (Wow, you are tech savy. I am impressed)
4A) Splash some mixture of bird shits and water on the floor. (More like it. I think you are smart?).
5) Get hold of a third party who have the knowledge on birdhouse design to provide you the recommendations on what are not right and how to perfect them. He must be someone professional who will spend at least two days to check, monitor plus make a full report that will identify your house short comings. The report will also provide the recommendations that are required and it is up to you to decide the next steps. (Hmm now you realised that you need to have a third party to check and ask for help. Very Good my son...)
6) If you are still unsure, bring in one more third party, to make the same kind of recommendations so that you can have a better understanding of what went wrong with your birdhouse. If you put the two reports together you will see the major problems and you now need to tackle those crucial issues one by one. (This is getting too extreme but not a bad ideas. I am pretty sure your are in a very safe zones).
You have no choice but to work towards improvements that will eventually turn your birdhouse from zero occupants to full......
If you need a bit more advise just PM me ........
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