There is nothing like caming back home !!!
Most of us do not realised that swiftlets have this sense of choosing a house that they can be safe to live in.
Why must they choose your house as compared to the others around you?
The answer liase in the microhabitat of the house.
You house is brand new. The smell of those cement are so strong. The pond are with tap water with lots of chemicals in them. The wood dust and those black paint on the walls are everything but not very familiar to the wild birds.
Just imagine a young birds just hatched from the egg. The moment they were out their eyes are not open. The only thing that they can feel is the vibration of their mother coming in bringging in those food and the surrounding smell.
In a house or a cave that are heavily populated with birds, their internal smell is nothing but the thick aroma of those shits on the floor decomposing. The dead young birds that fell down from their nests plus some eggs that were accidently dropped.
On the cave or house walls there are also lots of birdshit droppings throwned by alpha birds that love to mark their territories.
There are also lots of nests with baby birds squeeking for food from their mumies.
The house are humid and the temperature are just right to start a family.
If your house is very new, will you be able to create the same environment mentioned above on an instant basis?
You need to actually creat an environment to cheat these wild birds so that they feel very save in your house and there are lots of other birds staying in the birdhouse.
How do you do them?
Well there a long list of things that you can and should do.
One of those is the use of the right fragrance in your house.
Then you install the right number of tweeters on those wooden nesting planks. They must be strategically mounted.
You need to install the right humidifier that will automatically triggered once the room's humidity are not in the right range.
You place those fake nests to mimic that there are many nests in your very new house.
You place those bird shit that you bought from a store to get more aroma in the house.
You play those sexy sounds to make the birds feel at home.
If the smell is still not good enought you spread the floor with those powder that mimic the shit pungent smell..
Once your house microhabitat is closed to or similar to those houses or cave that have many residents inside, then you stand a very good chances to bring those birds to make your house as their permenant resident.
You cannot simply built a house and hope that god will lead those birds into it.
You have to be better prepared and make your house the top notch hotel in your area.
You must ensure that yours is better then your neighbor's birdhouse.
You must not be scared of your neighbors but they are the one will be scared of yours. All in all your birdhouse must be well designed, well laced with those aroma, your tweeters are with the right numbers and playing the right sound.
If after five years you are still not having the right numbers of birds inside then it would be advisable for your to let it go and find a better place to built your new dream birdhouse.
Remember you need to plan on how and when to get to the finishing line. Everything will depend on your actions and no body else ...
Edible Birdnest farming can be considered an ideal, most exciting and a very lucrative business. This venture is suitable for those who live in parts of Cambodia, Southern Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippine and Indonesia. This blog is dedicated to my findings, crazy ideas, encounters with newbies, comments from friends, local news, pictures relevant to Birdnest plus my personal experiences and knowledge gained in swiftlet farming.
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