Strange Behaviours Of Those Young Swiftlet !!!

Today I thought of writing something that you must have already known about how young swiftlet behaves when they are hatched and how they keep their nest clean.

First about hatching.

We know that the two eggs will be hatched within 25-28 days if incubation starts immediately after the two eggs were laid.

Once the baby are hatched, they are blind. Not because their eyes are bad bad the eyelids are still not ready to be slit opened.

During the blind period they will be totally dependant on their ears and their nose.



Whenever their parent reaches home with those food they will be able to recognise the flapping sound of the wings. They will immediately push their head upward to reach their parent to shaft in those food.

When their parent are away their nose will be filled with those smell coming from the floor. These smells makes them feel at home and less stress.

I guess by now you know what are those gases from the floor are made up.

Well let us make a list what can be on the BH floors that gives those beautiful nice aroma:

1) Their shits
2) Dead Baby or matured birds
3) Broken Eggs that were accidentally dropped.
4) Old bird nests that fell down due to aging.
5) Those feathers that were pulled out during mating.

All the above will rot away and during this rotting process they will admit a kind of gas, usually ammonia.

The ammonia can in many ways be defined as the stress relieving medicine to those birds.

That is why it is recommended that you should place as much old fresh bird shits inside your new BH to make those new young birds feels as if your new BH is the same as from where they came from.

One more interesting thing to observed is how come their nest is so clean. How do those young birds remove their shit out of the nest? Who taught them to behave as such?

Just have a look at this picture and you will realised that the young birds do have a good toilet manners.



They perched closed to the rim of their nest and excrete their shit out of their nest.

How clever and tidy !!!!!!

Hope you learn something new and the more you get to know about this beautiful creation you will be a better swiftlet person......