I was recently contacted by a newbie from Sabah, Malaysia and he was very keen to learn as much as he can about swiftlet farming.
After some email exchanges I told him that the best thing to do for the beginning is to get a unit of the bird call gadget and carry it around in his car boot.
He was so serious and followed my sincere advise. The very same day he remitted the money, RM 750 (4 Tweeters type), and I couriered a unit to his mailing address.
The moment he got hold of the gadget he wanted to go straight to those lands that he wanted to purchase.
I told him to hold on. Get some basics on how to properly use the gadget.
My recommendation to him was to go to the nearest BH and conduct a small test in one of the car park (open car park).
"You need to at least learn the correct way on how to use the gadget. What you need to do now is to insert the power cord into your car cigarette lighter. Switch on the car battery and observe gadget.
There will be some numbers on the digital screen and that shows you that the reader is working. Now switch the MP3 amplifier on and you will see a green light.
Okay put the "Low" knob to lowest and the "High" knob to about 3.00pm. Put the volume to zero first and slowly increase the volume.
Put the gadget on your car roof and look what happen above."
You need to now do some work.
1) Count the number of birds that come over and circle about your car
2) Look at their body size and the overall length of their wings of tip to tip.
3) Look at their feather's color. It is black, brown or any other color and do they have sany spot at the back of the body?
4) Where are are coming from?
5) Do they fly, the majority, on clockwise or anticlockwise
6) Do all of them stay put or after some minutes they flew away?
After about 20 minutes you may shut the gadget off. Now look where those birds will fly to.
Only after getting this first rehearsal you may want to proceed with the those lands.
Well not bad, he now seems to be learning very fast. Read this email just received this morning:
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Hi Harry
The bird call gadget worked fine.
I have tested the gadget near a birdhouse In Penampang. The birdhouse is a 2-storey shop house with 2 bird entrance holes at the front and 2 at the back of the shop house.
The swiftlets came after the gadget was on and the numbers increased. I could not count the number of birds because I was in between 2 rows of shop houses and the swiftlets appear to be more adult size.
They flew in anti-clockwise and some would swoop lower towards our car where the gadget was.
The 1st test was carried out near a friend's house on top of a hill abt 8km from KK city. It was abt4.45pm. and after a rain shower. There is a lake abt 1km from the test area which is hilly and with a fair bit of trees.
Even before switching on the gadget, there were a few swiftlets flying nearby. After switching on, more swiftlets came and it was abt 30 birds. They seem to fly in from a NE to E direction (which was direction of the Crocker Range mountains.
The swiftlets flew in an anti-clockwise direction and above trees level. I noticed that the birds were of small size maybe not full adult size.
The 2nd test was carried out near an abandoned paddy field next to a river with plenty of trees near a secondary jungle. It was abt 5.40pm and abt 6-7km from the 1st test area.
I noticed there were some big birds flying on and off.
After switching on the gadget, some swiftlets appeared further away from us. I think it may be due to the bigger birds flying around.
The birds appear to come from a NE to E direction.
We then proceeded to go to the direction where the birds were seen and coming from. This was abt 1-2km away and we did our 3rd test.
The 3rd test was also near some abandoned paddy fields but there were some vegetable farms nearby with houses and an area with some trees. It was an open area and the time was abt. 6.10pm.
As we arrived there were already swiftlets flying overhead but not near our car.
We switched on the gadget and more birds appeared and some seem to come from a NE to E direction ie. from the hills direction.
There was some 30 or more birds and they flew in an anti-clockwise direction.
The birds were bigger and more adult size compared to Test-site 1. Some birds swooped down lower towards the car where the gadget was playing.
Will carry out more tests in more areas and do further comparison.
What else do you think I have missed out during the tests.
Rgds.
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Those who wish to start your journey into swiftlet farming, my sincere advise is to follow this person foot steps.
He is doing the right thing and in this way those unscrupulous "Sifu" will not cheat you that easy.
You can test anytime and anywhere that you wanted to.
Every test you conduct teaches you something new.
The more you learn about them the better you will become. More focus, more knowledge and make lesser mistakes.....
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