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Friday, April 24, 2009

Most Common Delima In Running A BH !!!

Some BH owners are successful in running their BHs but many do not.

The most common problems are either no birds in the house after many months and some have the number stagnant after accumulating a few nests.

This special email I received is one of them:

hi, Harry,

I am Mr T from Kuantan, Pahang.I have a bh located 8km away from town.

My bh is two storey shoplot with two shop 40''x70''. Under flying path.One open roof entrance in front of the shop.

The front of the shop is facing the sunlight when evening..The age of the bh is about 1year and 7months.

At the same row of the shop have 8 shop renovate to bh with 5 swiftlet farmer (including me). The external sound is using Black Cloud (since 25Jan2009)..

But, i facing some problems... the nests stop growing . Before i went to National Service(28dec2008) i had count the nest(107nest) until today the number remain the same.


I feel that the young birds dislike to stay in my bh..after they know how to fly,they even dont fly back and build nest.

Harry, how to attract more birds to stay in my bh? Apply aroma?? what kind of aroma tat i need to use?


What do you think is not right in this case?

My best answer is to call a BH Doctor to visit the house and do some health check. There are 1001 reasons but the best way is still to get someone who might be able to pin point the most probable reasons why the nests are not growing.

Using black cloud will not work if the house is not conducive, hot, dry and bright.

There might be so many predators in the house especially cockroaches.

The house might have problems with those wood fungus. The flying path might need some changes.

The sound system must have deteriorated. Some of those tweeters are giving cracking sounds which might scares away those new birds. The amplifiers are no more working in order.

The floor might be too dry.

The house might need to be treated with fresh aroma for the next 6 months.

Those gadget on the floor might be having mechanical problems with lots of noise scaring away the young birds.

Your neighbors might come out with some special gadgets to lure all those young birds away from your BH??

There are many more reasons.

My best advise is to get someone to visit the BH and list down what can be the probable reasons.

You need to find the right answers and follow up with solutions.

If you really cannot find the right person to help you in pin pointing the possible reasons then call 017 755 1318. I might be able to drive down to do the inspection.

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