Feeding of Young Swiftlet By Mr R of Taiping !!!

If you happened to find young swiftlets on your BH floor, there is a very strong chance that they will not survive if something they are not being fed.

You have two choices. To place them back into the right nest or you need to be their foster parent.

How do you raise them?

Mr.R of Taiping, whom have raised a few swiftlets before gave me the following advises:

1) Keep the baby birds in a container. The container need to be cleaned and warm. The best is in a fake nest.

2) Try not to mix them up, if you happened to have more then one. They tend to bite each other. If they bite each other they might injured and cause the skin to tear.

3) Feed them 3 times a day.

4) The best food are those termite's that fly out of their nests after rain. Catch them and you can keep them in them fresh in the refrigerator.

5) The other alternative are the bread worms or meal worm. Get the smaller size worms from those pet shop or bird selling shop. You need to cut them into small pieces.

6) When feeding you need to be careful. Use a kind of scoop to pick the worms and feed the swiftlet babies.

7) Make sure you do not injured the baby's throat. Once injured they will refuse to eat and die.

8) They will be able to fly all over you within 30 -40 days after hatching from their eggs. When they can fly you need to put them in a room. Do not open the window.

9) Once they are fatten up, they will stop eating about two days before they take their flight. They need to reduce their body weight in order to fly away.

10) You might want to mix their diet with crickets, house flies and grasshoppers. Remember you need to cut them into small pieces to ensure that they can be swallowed.

11) They do not like wind draught. Make sure there are no wind in the room. Do not place a fan or open the windows.

12) They might like you to play those swiftlet sound. Maybe you might want to install a bird sound gadget and play them using a timer.

13) If you wish to have the birds back, you might want to release those birds in your BH. They might come back.

14) You might want to put some marking on their leg. Something white that can use as a tracer if they should come back.

Well I hope you have a good day with the advises given. If you are still not sure please let me know so that I can get the answers.