There is nothing wrong to learn from your mistakes. Everyday you learn new things and more often then not from making mistakes.
Small mistakes is pretty okay but gross mistakes are just too expansive and it might cost your life.
The above pictures show how mistakes were repeated.
This type of mistakes are shear stupidity and you might want to laugh about it but somewhere in your life time you do make these kind of mistakes.
In swiftlet farming, I would say that lots of newbies makes mistakes.
The biggest mistakes is to rush into building his dream BH and later found that those birds refuse to enter the house.
This are normally due to lack of knowledge or the consultant that he engaged cannot deliver his promised.
Just be careful and try to learn as much as you can before you embark into building your first dream BH.
1 comment:
Dear Harry,
This is a good one. If we do not weigh the pros and cons properly, just like the crane and the truck in the picture.Both also "gonners" in the end. Thanks for the opportunity of meeting you at my office in Kwang Tung Building, Pudu, KL. I have read the book " Swiftlets of Borneo" and found it extremely helpful , not only if you are interested in swiftlet farming as an investment but also if you are at this point in time , like me and my husband and our immediate family members all enjoy the goodness of savouring real authentic birds' net soup. Ha Ha.
We like to eat the bird's nest more than invest in swiftlet farming for the time being!!! ha hah
We add santan to it, pandan juice and eat it chilled cold. Yummy! yummy. Best-lah
My mother-in-law and father-in-law who are 86+ become much younger after eating birds' nest regularly. Their skin is much smoother. My father-in-law who used to have allergies each time he eats prawns, don't seem to have this problem now since eating birds' nest soup.
By the way, just for knowledge, how do you dislodge the raw nests from the BH?
a) Climb up and use tool to dislodge from the back of the nest downwards?
OR
b) Spray water at the back to soften nest before dislodging?
c) what is the shelf life of raw birds'nest?
d) Any visible signs to look out for to determine whether the nest is fresh or not??
I do not believe that b) is better than a) as the water would add to the false weight of the birds' nest.
Sorry-lah,excuse me for being calculative as I buy about close to 3 kgs each year for personal consumption and I have been told many many stories by all sorts of people selling birds' nests. I do not know who to believe.
After reading your blog, I can see that your passion for swiftlets and swiftlet farming is very much a part of you and me and my husband think you are a good and unselfish "guru" who are willing to tell the truth not only to enlighten newbies but also consumers of birds' nest.
"Selfish" people are the ones who "sell fish " in the market and they do not care how people react, they just care for themselves only.
Thanks once again for all the inavaluable tips and carry on your good work dear "AWESOME SWIFTLET"
Kind and swifting regards,
Cindy and my other half.
17th February 2009
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