A Bit About Aroma In Your Birdhouse !!!

In a birdhouse or cave with lots of swiftlets nesting, there will be a lot of bird shits on the floor.

These bird shits will normally undergo a normal decomposition cycle where bacteria and bird shit insects will turn the shit into Guano or fertilizer.

During this decomposition stage there will be a number of gases emitted in the house. These gases are made of ammonia (NH3), Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Both NH3 and H2S are very smelly and aromatic to the birds. Their smell seem to be an attraction points for any birds to stay in a BH.

This is mainly due to their nature since hatched into the world. Just try to imagine that your are a young bird just hatched from the egg. The moment you are exposed to the atmosphere, you are already breathing in those natural aroma in the house or a cave. You cannot open your eyes yet but your nose sniffed those pungent smell from your mummy's and daddy's shits.



So it is very common that when these young birds would like to feel peace and safe, they prefer to choose a house with strong bird shit decomposing smell.

This is why you need to consider applying adequate aroma materials to your new birdhouse. You can normally used a real bird shit, feace powders, bird nest processing water, specially blend liquids, hormone that are specially ready to use and etc.

Some are applied to the floor while there are some applied to the walls and not forgeting those that can be applied onto the nesting planks.

To ensure that these aroma last for at least one month, my advise is to shut all those ventilation holes but open those strategically located holes.



Aroma application have these specific functions:

1) To a brand new house, they can be used to remove or mask all those unusual cement, wood, smoke, oily and welding smells.

2) To an old BH these smell will create the original atmosphere duplicating a house with lots of birds staying in it. As such you make the birds feel save and peaceful.

3) To make the nesting plank smells as if there are many nests being built on them. This will cheat the birds to feel that there are many other birds in the house and he is not alone to start a family.

4) One of the most important function is to let the smell exit the house via the entrance hole(s). Close all the ventilation holes and open only a few strategically located holes allowing the air to sweep the aroma from the rooms to the bird entrance holes. The moment the wild birds smell these fragrances they will be very curious to enter the entrance hole(s) and perhaps make a decision to stay.

You have to be very care full not to apply those aroma made for the walls and the floors onto those nesting planks. They have to be carefully used and not to apply wrongly. Ask your suppliers to explain to you in details.

How and what are Aroma made of?

This is something that you need to find out yourself......

If you do not know where to get the information, please sort out with Harry at 017 755 1318 ...

This Harry knows too much and he just love to share them with you .......

Latest from a new birdhouse owner who started Harry's Aroma Theraphy (HAT):

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Hi, Harry,


Thanks for your e-mail,

Just to let you know that since the last time we went to my birdhouse to do aroma therapy the are some improvements.

There are now 7 permanent large patch droppings and many scattered ones.

(scattered ones means that they are there but have not fix on one spot yet).

Compared to only one large patch when we last visited.


Thanks for everything.

Mr. A

I am very glad that I made one more person happy.

For more informations about my last trip to this particular BH please click on this: http://swiftletfarming.blogspot.com/2008/02/trade-marks-in-kuala-selangor.html

Hope you enjoy reading and learn as much as you can ....