What Else Can You Do While Waiting For Your BH To Be Populated ???

Once you have cleared those agricultural land and put up a BH what will you do in the meantime?

This was something that I was discussing with Dr.K one evening when I was enjoying watching those wild swiftlets flying home.

Dr, there are many things that you might want to consider.

You see you need at least 2 to 3 years to populate your new BH to an acceptable nests population. Once that is done you have very little to do except to harvest their nests every four months.

What will be the best options to fill the land before you start looking at an extension?

My suggestions were as follows:

1) Plant those Logan and in between Chillies & Terong .

He did just that. I got hold a total of 60 logan trees, 20 the ping pong and 40 diamond, and now starting to show new leaves.

This plant, once starting to bear flowers, there will be lots of bees and insects. It will be very good for your swiftlets to have food in the vicinity.

In Setiawan, Perak one of my good friend planted Chillies and Terong using black plastic bags. The planting system is very advance using specially mixed fertilizers pump into those plastic bags three times a day.

After only three short months he is harvesting about 150 kilos a day. I think he is selling at Rm 5 per kilo. His daily gross income is about rm750.

You can actually plant those chillies and terong in berween those logan trees.

2) You might want to add other trees like papaya and pineapples.

Once you have their fruits, you can actually used the ripe fruits to breed fruit flies.

I am now constructing a fruit fly cabin in SP that will be useful for my BH.

3) What about grow produce fertilizer your self.

What do you mean? Well breed those earthworms. Earthworms are very easy to breed. All you need are some racks plus those waste materials from your kitchen or from the market.

You place the waste materials, inclusive of newspapers, card boards, kitchen waste (no meat, bones, glass or steel), dried leaves, grass, cow dungs and any other waste into a specially made containers and feed those wrigley worms.

Their waste will be a very good fertilizer and you can pack them and sell at a very good price.

The worms can be dried and process into fish meals. They are very high in proteins.

You might want to sell those worms to those who love fishing or who owned fish farms.

There are more things that you can do with those worms. It seem that there are foreign companies who actually buy worms for cosmetic products manufacturing.

Worm tea, some liquid produced from worms farming, is said to refresh potted plants in your house.

4) Start insects Breeding Operation.




There are two types of flies that can be used to bring more swiftlets to your house. The first is the fruit flies while the second, much larger in size, is the soldier flies.

The two are not very difficult to breed. Both are very good for your BH tenants and I am very sure they will bring more birds to your yard.

The fruit flies are very easy to start with. All that you need are some rotting pineapples, or bananas, or those jack fruits or any other fruits. You just need to start them by using insect powder and later cut those fruits and put beside the activated fruit flies powder Within 12 days they will be all over the room.

As for the soldier fly this unique insect will produce a very sizable maggots that are said to be very rich in protein. You can actually use to feed those fresh water fish.

Perhaps some you let them grow to be your swiftlet's insect feed while some you can actually feed those fishes.

5) What about breed some fish?

Since you already have those worms and soldier's fly maggots, rich in proteins, why don't you rear some fish?

Yes perhaps talapia, or puyu, or keli, or arawana?

You will eventually become a farmer while waiting for those swiftlets to fill up the BH.


Hmmm......

This is getting very interesting when you begin looking swiftlet farming as your retirement activity.

There are so many things that you can do to help in making your occupied and filling up your BH to the maximum.