One Sure Way Of Having Your New House Full Of Birds !!!

Before you buy or lease a property for your swiftlet ranching you must ensure that the location is right and the property lies below the flight path.

You must also ensure that every time you conduct those birdcall tests, there are at least 100 birds responded positively to it.

Once these two criterias are met, you can then select the type of birdhouse design that will suit the property.

You need to carefully check the direction of the sun moving from the east to the west. The sun path will tell you how your birdhouse should be orientated so that the sun will not hit the wrong sides of the external walls of your birdhouse.

You must also ensure that those birds movement in the everning. From which directions they are coming from and which directions they are going to. This will allow you to choose the right location(s) of your birdhouse entrance hole(s).

Well the rest, internal design of your birdhouse, need little to say. They must be provide the minimum design criterias of a good birdhouse. Complete with a high quality sound systems, nesting panels, humidity controllers, aroma application, insect producing powder, temperature monitoring equiptment and etc.

If you are the first person who built one in a virgin area then your problem will be less as compaired to those with lots of swiftlets houses.

But there are exceptions.

I visited the same town where a few months ago I was given the opportunity to enter a newly converted birdhouse located in an old shophouses row.

I did not realised that the unit was just next door to another birdhouse which is very very successful. This unit seem to be the pioneer in the town and the bird population that I saw was substential.

The issue here is, since the second unit is just next door, the rate of birds populating this new house is pretty high. I believed that this is one of the very good way of making sure that your investment is safe.

Immediately after launching there were already birds coming into the house even before the sound were played.

The first month, there were already more then 10 nests. The next, the figure jumped to 30 nests. Now at three months, the number is getting close to 100 nests.

I am pretty sure the house will be full within less then three years.

The lesson here is that, if you know that your neighbor's birdhouse is successfull, you have a very good chance to populate your birdhouse. The best is to be located just next door and your house entrance hole(s) is just the opposite of your neighbors unit.



In Segamat, Johore, a similar situation happened. If you have any house just below the 20 stories birdhouse tower you stand a very good chance of populating your birdhouse to the maximum. There are many now and I am very sure more buildings around this tower will soon become swiftlet houses.

The above recommendations are merely from my personal observations and I do not warrant that they are always right.

You need to digest and do your own homework. If you find my observations are right then do the needfull. However if they are not then do the necessary .....