I have received numerous question about the same thing."How can you remove those bats, Pak Harry?"
Bats are just a kind of nuisance when they occupy your BH. They do not eat your swiftlet's babies, eggs or nests but they do produce smell that will be a kind of deterrent to your swiftlet population.
Swiftlet will tend not to build their nest closed to those areas where bats occupied.
The smell or odor of these bats comes from their body and their shit.
They are not easily located in your BH because they tend to hide themselves at a very remote location but once their colonized your BH you will become a bat's farmer and not swiftlet farmer.
They normally sleep or rest during the daytime and hunt for food during the night.
They actually change shift with your swiftlet.How can you reduce their population?
If your BH is new with no birds around you can easily trap them with those fine net. Tie the ends of the net, like badminton court net configuration and with two poles two person can move towards the colony or the individual pest and trap them.
You need to remove them but first better to kill because if you release they will enter your BH upon releasing.
Among other things that you might want to do to reduce the bat nuisance is to catch them on a regular basis around your BH.
You can do this by simply putting up a kind of netting about 8-9 feet above the ground.I was in one BH located in an agricultural land and while doing some inspection of the BH I discovered a number of bats trapped by these netting.
There were at least 10-20 bats trapped on the net and come to think about it, this can help to reduce the number of bats around your BH.
Simple but effective and you need not crack your head to install any poison inside your BH.
Pak Harry is a very observant guy and always find ways to teach his blog followers about something new and never though of.
That's me and I will keep digging for many more new things which I believed will help many or all swiftlet farmers.
No comments:
Post a Comment