I was in Cheras in the morning and by 3.00pm was in Ipoh, Perak.
In Cheras met Mr M to discuss about their BH project in Ulu Beranang while in Ipoh help Mr N to conduct two bird call tests at his two properties.
The Ulu Beranang project is a construction of three stories BH on an Agricultural land.
I was asked to be their Advisor. So from this month every Wednesday of the week I need to be around in their office and at the construction site.
As for Ipoh, Mr N is a newbie in swiftlet farming and I spent more then 6 hours with him.
Reached home at 11.30 pm and received this email from a newbie asking about advise on his venture to convert a BH in his small town.
His problem was more towards a "Consultant" who helped him to conduct a Bird call test and the result was 20 birds. This so call result was good according to the "Consultant" and pushing him to go ahead with the conversion and insisted that he wanted to have 19% share of the BH.
Luckily he stumbled on my blog and asked my sincere opinion.
Well this story is common and these so call "Consultant" is actually trying to push these newbie into parting with their money and he capitalised on the newbie lack of knowledge.
Common sense will tells you that the "Consultant" is not sincere in saying that 20 birds is good enough. He has some hidden agenda to cheat.
I think 20 is too low and risky.
My reason being out of those 20 birds only 20% (4 birds) are those young birds. The rest are matured birds with nests somewhere in the area. You can only attract young birds to your BH. Those matured birds have their own nests with eggs or babies and they are not an easy target.
Why is this "Consultant" was so bold and shrewed to push the project ahead while he knows that the project is not viable?
You think for yourself and please use your logical thinking.
If you are not sure call Harry for free advise (On the phone only).
In Ipoh, I conducted two separate tests. One was at a shophouse while the other was in an empty piece of land.
The shophouse area was without any response while the open area there were about 30 birds at 6.30pm.
I told Mr.N to do more tests and perhaps choose a better time (around 5pm.00pm) and closer to the pond.
He took my advise and took one of the test unit for the task.
I told him that one test is not adequate. He can conduct more frequent. Each test he needs to look at which direction those birds are coming from, the estimated number of birds roving above the set, the direction of rotation (clockwise or anticlockwise) , the size of those birds and after some time where do they fly off to?
It is also very good once finished or after 20 minutes switch of the sound and observe their behaviours. What will they do and where do they fly off to.
If you want to have some fun, get a piece of cloth or a tree branch and wave to the sky. Just observe how do those birds react?
Every test have its own peculiarity. Every test you will learn something new.
The more you conduct these tests, the better person you will be. When you become a better person, you will eventually make less mistakes.
Remember mistakes are costly.
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