A New Great Way In Getting More Insect In Your Roving Areas !!!

(Brown Sugar Used To Activate Insect Generator)

A few months ago I discovered this unique way of breeding fruit flies inside your BH.

I clearly remembered when I first discovered the new formula.

It happened during my visit to this BH located in Karangan, Kulim, Kedah.

The moment I step inside this BH I saw these containers inside the monkey house tunnel where there were plenty of insects flying around.

I quickly asked the owner how he prepare the food to lure so many insects in his BH.

"Oh my Dad use pineapple and mix with red sugar." he replied.

"He will collect those pineapple fruits or just its skin and cut them into chunks and sprinkle those red sugar."

"Once fermented for about 2-3 weeks he will blend the fermented pineapple into slurry." he said.

I put it aside until recently.

I remember those statements from him and I called to ask him to let me know what exactly was the method his farther prepare the insects food.

"Okay I will talk to my Dad and come out with the exact method how he prepared it." he complied.

Today he send me an email and followed up with telephone talk.

What he did was to let me have the exact formula on how to prepare the insect food.

It sound very simple and cheap.

I will try out the formula and let you all know how effective and good is the method.

My current plan is to try this formula out in Rantau, Senawang, N9.

The BH has the necessary bench and electrical plugs to operate the blender.

I plan to carry out the mixing and fermenting next week and later blend the fermented pineapple into slurry.

Let see how the method works.

If it works I will let you all know.

I might need to sell the formula if it is very good to be used inside your BH.

How To Get Make It Darker and More Conducive !!!

(The original sketch send to me by Raub BH owner)

I wrote about this piece of paper where a BH owner whatsapp to me recently.

He told me that the sketch shows me all the nests on the lower part of his BH at Raub Pahang.

I remembered visiting this BH and told him roughly what he ought to do,

From the moment he accepted my request to see him in Raub I know he wanted my personal advice on what else can he do to make his BH nest population reached the maximum.

After a brief drink at a famous Kopitiam he invited me to drop and see how his BH was doing.

I took that opportunity to enter and view what can be done to improve.

The first thing I saw was the bright light that I told him to look into.

If you examine the sketch with those dots you can easily split the area into three.

1) The most populated.
     At the very end of the floor where the light inside was at its minimum.

2) The least populated.
    Very closed to the LAL where those light are shinning direct from the main entrance hole.

3) The medium populated.
    In between the most populated and the least populated and the area on the other end of the nesting room.

Briefly I told him that he need to block the direct sunlight on both floors.

I pointed the spots where those walls should be erected and I promised him that once that is done there will me more birds staying in his BH.

Have a good look at the sketch added with the line representing the place where he should erect the walls.

(The two walls floor up to the ceiling to block those bright light)

If you have something similar and wanted my opinion please call 017 7551318

A Proof That You Can Migrate Them From Your Neighbors !!!

(This BH now is empty due to migration of birds to another BH about 50 meters away)

You cannot miss this BH located about 50 meters away from Tok Dor revamped BH.

I was working on this BH located somewhere in Jerangau Trengganu recently.

While working I noticed this BH that seems to be dead.

According to the caretaker of the revamped BH the owner of the failed BH has decided to abort the operation.

It was there one to two years before the more condusive BH owned by my client came into the picture.

The number of birds staying was something like 200 but now the owner decided to pull the plug.

The story from the owner of the revamped BH was a bit different.

He attended my Swiftlet Farming Seminar years before investing into swiftlet farming.

He bought a land beside the two years old BH and proceeded to erect a two stories BH about 60'X25'.

The house was double walls and main entrance facing the east as per my teaching.

After completion he was not very confident that his newly constructed BH will be tenanted.

One day I remember receiving his call asking for a set of external and internal sounds.

I passed to him a few and just after installing he called to confirm that the most attractive sound was my KPOP.

Internal sound was my favourite SuperBabyKing.

Just after a few month he reported something very strange.

The number of nest suddenly shot up and his neighbor's BH population was badly affected.

"Pak Harry is it possible that his tenants moved over to my BH?" he asked.

I have not hesitation to say that it is possible.

That BH might be poorly designed and looking from the outer walls you can safely say that the BH internal temperature is unbearable to those birds.

There was no roof to prevent the hot sun and the top part of the walls were not plastered.

I put my bet that the BH was with a single wall and not doubled.

All his tenants must have been staying in a spa and not a BH.

"You might have created a condusive house with the right internal temperature plus a good set of external and internal sounds" I told him.

This special observation tells us that it is possible to migrate those birds easily from your neighbors to your BH if you give them a more appropriate house to them.

You BH must be like 6 stars with the right environment inside plus a good set of sounds.

If you own a BH and the opposite is happening you should try to upgrade your BH to at least a 5 stars standard.

Call 017 7551318 for a cup of coffee about how to do it.....

Dungun BH Owners Insisted To Extend My Service !!!

(Fixing of Hexagonal Tweeter precisely where it should be at Bukit Besi BH)

In the beginning it was only two BHs and now the Dungun BH owner wanted me to finish up his third BH about 30 minutes away from the 2nd BH.

I was engaged to upgrade a BH at Bkt Besi Trengganu about two weeks ago.

My main function was to upgrade the BH sound system only.

As usual with so many errors found in the BH I asked the owner to that there were a few things more to modify.

One sure thing was the location of entrance hole from the LAL hovering areas into the nesting rooms (top and ground floor).

After about four full days (9:00 am till 4:30 pm) the BH was completed with the most interesting sound system.

I installed a hexagonal tweeter, two poles tweeters at the entrance hole window frame, more external sound tweeters inside the LAL and the nesting rooms.

The number of internal sound tweeters were increased to almost 400 pieces.

The external sound chosen was Marvelous Cloud (remix) and at night those external sound tweeters installed inside the BH will be playing Blue Star at a lower volume.

The internal sound chosen were the Superbabyking and NBU.

Which means that at night there will be three different sounds played simultaneously.

This method was proven to be very attractive in Raub Pahang.

This BH was installed with about 500 fake nests and all applied with 2x Super Pheromone.

After finishing the installation and activated the system we were moved to another BH about 25 minutes away.

The just revamped BH was no longer as before and you can see birds flying in and out almost all the time (daytime).

The number of birds returning were surging in numbers.

The Homestay Kita (we stayed at this place) owner confirmed to the BH owner that he saw with his own eyes that the BH now is more lively and active.

"The other day when it rain I saw a cloud of birds over your BH.  I don't know they came from. Just unusual" he reaffirmed the owner.

With the good feedback from a third party the owner feels that what I did was right and the result is more like instantly.

He now feels that all his BHs must be revamped like I always asked him to do.

He mobilized me and staff to his 2nd BH and we managed to finish it within 4 days.

Now he begged me to allow my workers to stay back to move to his 3rd BH.

During "pisang goreng" (my favourite snack) break he requested my permission in front of the workers and they agreed to move to the next location.

I am very pleased that the owner appreciated our hard work.

The whole episode prove that if your BH is properly constructed and the right location and with the right sound system it will be the most attractive BH in your area.

Just have a look at the attached video clips and judge for yourself.

The key point is the work that we did to upgrade the sound systems makes the BH more attractive.

Part one at about 7:15 pm


Part 2 at about 7:20pm

Something Weird After Super Pheromone Spray Was Installed !!!

(Look at the number recorded on Thursday?)

Something which I am puzzled but at the same time happy that the number of birds coming into the Pantai Remis Kapar BH is improving.

Just about a few minutes ago the owner entered his BH data room and capture the LCD screen of the monitoring gadget.

He whatsapp to me and I was shock to see the number recorded on Thursday April 26th 2014.

The total number of birds crossed the gadget sensor was 2536.

A very unusual and weird.

"Harry can we trust the gadget?" he asked.

I cannot give you the answer, i told him.

There must be something that happened on that day where the number recorded shot to such a heavy number.

It could be the weather and those rain water must have cause some erratic reading.

Is it possible that on that day there was a colony of birds passing by and they are on the way to another location?  Very little chance.

What if the BH have some spiritual thing inside that wanted to play the fool with the gadget?  May be.

I do not want to crack my head on the reason why but I told the owner what those numbers are telling him.

1) Overall the number of birds that entered his BH is higher and nearly 6 days above 200.  Only one i.e on Monday when the number dip to 169.  

2) Last week most of the numbers were below 200 with the lowest at 125.

3) I remember installing two sets of super pheromone spray inside one of the VIP room.  This might be a possible reason.  The two was hanged on the walls and activated to operate from 9:00 am till 7:30 pm with the interval of 6 minutes apart.

4) I hope the number will continue to grow and if that happen we know that the revamp BH is cruising to the right direction.

I am very glad that now I have a gadget to count the numbers on a daily basis.

The evident shown cannot be cheated.

The positive result shown after a new thing is introduced into the BH makes me feel very comfortable.

I am sure I can install another unit at a newly revamp BH soon.

If you are keen to install one let me know.

Call me at 0177551318 or email me at harryswiftlet@yahoo.com.

Guest What Do You Think This Sketch Indicated ???

Just look at the above sketch and tell me what do you is this BH owner trying to tell me?

I received it today and I was a kind of shock to know how he did the dot here the dot there and the dots every where dot dot.

Hey are those nests inside your BH? I asked.

"Yes Pak Harry that was where those nests are on the ground floor. Almost 600 out of 1300 nests in total".  he answered.

Very diligent and took a lot of time to come out with such a precise sketch.

I am not very sure if others will follow but I think we should.

His story was something very interesting.

After erecting his BH there were little birds inside.

After attended my Seminar conducted in Lumut , Perak on September 2011 he came back with a strong motivation.

He applied most of what he learned and the result was something exceptional.

Within two years he touches 800 nests and after three years he hit 1300 ++ nests.

All in all he followed Pak Harry's ideas and used only Pak Harry recommended sounds.

An outstanding achievement and I am very very happy for a simple guy with lots of guts.

I visited his BH about three weeks ago and I was very delighted that he confirmed to me that he never attended any other Seminar except mine.

That prove something.

I deliver the right advise and it works.

My set of sounds if properly used will get your empty BH populated.

It Might Be Due To Civet (Musang) !!!

I remember a BH owner from Kuala Lipis Pahang who wanted my opinion why there were a number of dead swiftlet without their head.

About 1.5 months ago another BH was showing the same signs.

Yes a number of dead swiftlet with no head.

The head must be like roast groundnuts to these particular predator.

It could not be owl or eagle.

My suspicion was those rats.

But rats will eat the whole body but not the head.

Today Mr Tan of Kuala Lipis SMS what he discovered.

"Hi Pak Harry. U know something? Remember that I had problem with predators at my BH?.I found out the culprit (problem).  It is the musang (civet).  It can climb up the wall from the outside. All the way up.  We caught it in a cage inside the BH."

What a wonderful discovery.

Now please add one more predator to your list.

All this while we are scared of those owls, hawks, eagle, hornbill, rats, cats, and etc.  It never came to our mine that those civets are also bad to our BH.

So if you happened to find a lot of dead birds with no head you need to quickly set a trap (a cage) baited with perhaps banana.

Best of luck to all.

I am very happy to share this real story from Mr Tan of Kuala Lipis.

Sample pictures taken at a BH in Tok Dor Dungun Trengganu.

Your Read But Your Never Applied !!!

I was given the opportunity to inspect this BH in N9 and I was a bit not very pleased with the owner.

He DIY the BH and keep saying that he have been reading my blog for almost 2 years now.

As far as I can see inside and outside the BH he did very little with all the information, data and descriptions given.

I pointed to him some very glaring mistakes that I would punish my student for being so terrible.

1) He wrongly placed the hexagonal tweeter above his monkey house.  I keep telling where the hexagonal should be installed and it must be as closed as possible to the main entrance hole.  The best is just above the middle of the window frame.  This owner put it to the side where it was convenient.

2) The hexagonal tweeter must not be too high or too low.  This BH was with a hexagonal about 7-8 feet above the monkey house roof.  This is not the way I described in my blog.  I think he must be reading a wrong blog and not mine.

3) He was so angry with those owls entering his BH he quickly installed those barb wires that are suitable for Guantamo prison.  The barb wires were laced with those sharp blades all over the place.  I don't think this was a very good decision and I have never recommended this hash method.

4) At the main entrance hole he enveloped his external sound tweeters inside those razor blades barb wires.  See this sketch and can you imagine what happen when those poor birds wanted to pack at the tweeters?

5) Internally only a few ideas that belong to me was installed and many were not done exactly to what I have written.  Good example is that he installed those cluster tweeters but not very well done.

6) There was no gadgets to lure those birds to enter and quickly stay.  Good example not a single fake nest inside this 100'X25'X3 stories high BH.  A very poor planned BH.

7) The amplifiers were not properly set and both sounds were very noisy and not correct.

All in all I was a bit upset when he claimed that he has been reading my blog for almost two years but nothing seems to have entered his brain.

So those of you who read my blog and never apply those ideas given please be careful not to upset me.  

A messy BH with very little result if you do not follow those interesting ideas that I have described in my blog.

Why Even After Following Pak Harry Blogs His BH Still Have No Birds !!!

I managed to squeeze some free time to inspect a BH located some where in Kuala Klawang N9.

Three days ago the owner confessed to me that even after following my blog for more than two years he still could not populate his 100' X 26' X 3 stories BH.

"Pak Harry I simply could not understand why it is so hard to populate my BH.  I have been reading your blog for almost two years." he said.

The truth after carrying out the inspection works are as follows:

1) He did not apply all my ideas in full.  Only maybe 10-15% so how to get the BH to be populated.

2) He DIY his BH and with very little experiences he was literary  "working with his eyes closed".

3) The hexagonal tweeters were wrongly placed and too high.

4) His BH was attacked by a number of owls and due to that he installed lots of barb wires with those sharp razors all over the place.

5) One very strange thing that he did was to install his external tweeters in the middle of those barb wires.  If those swiftlet should fly to peck on the tweeters they will surely be injured.

6) He got very little understanding of the function of those sounds.

7) The external sounds that are crucial in leading those swiftlet from the rooftop to the back of the BH was not properly understood.

8) The partition erected were with little basis and not low enough.

9) The door into those partitioned areas were too short.  I told him to open the top cover so that those birds will easy asses to the connecting room.

10)  His nesting planks were with very little gadget to attract those swiftlet.  No fake nests, not steel bars, not perfume garden and nothing.

11) One very poor way to run a BH is to force those birds to stay all over the floors.  I told him to focus on those floor that those birds find it easy to reach.  Focus on this floor and modify it to attract them to the floor.  Leave the rest for a later date.

12) As usual all his amplifiers were wrongly set.

13) He never have any other sounds in his sound library.  In fact he don't have a sound library.  How are you going to be a successful BH owner if you do not the right number of good sounds?.

14) Both the internal and external sounds used were wrong.  I changed both just to prove my point.

The best lesson from this report is that do not try to be too smart.

Swiftlet farming is not a very easy investment.

If you are not knowledgeable enough try to work with someone that have the experiences and expert in the industry.

Make sure you have enough sounds to operate your BH.

If you cannot have the above call 0177551318.

How To Monitor Your BH After A Revamp Operation !!!

During my last revamp operation of a BH located at Pantai Remis, Kapar, Kuala Selangor I installed a bird monitoring system.

What this interesting gadget does is to count the number of birds that entered or leave the BH from a  set time period.

For this BH I set to count from 7:00pm until 8:30pm.

What I managed to collect so far are as follows:

Sunday         April 6        169

Monday        April 7        234

Tuesday       April 8        294

Wednesday April 9        134

Thursday     April 10      161

Friday           April 11      140

Saturday      April 12     No Data

Sunday        April 13     135

Monday         April 14     179

Tuesday       April 15     284

Wednesday April 16     164

Thursday     April 17     125

Friday           April 18     314

Saturday     April 19      No Data

Sunday       April 20       358

Monday        April 21     169

If you look like an ordinary person you will not see what I see.

Look at the highest number of birds recorded.

It was 358 which is something that I think there is a very good chance that it will increase much more sooner or later.

The second highest was 314 which was the day that I last visited.

The table give me some ideas on what are happening and if this number increase to let say 600 within the next few weeks  I will be the first person to say that this BH is moving to a right direction.

All those gadgets installed during the revamp operation are working and pulling more birds into the BH.

This new method in counting the number of birds entering a BH can be very useful if you know how to use it.

My Tasks At Bukit Besi BH !!!

(A very simple 2 stories BH with lots of potential)

The owner of this BH at Bkt Besi Dungun Trengganu wanted my opinion.

He drove me up to the BH and wanted my best opinion.

I was quite impressed with the number of birds found inside.

The BH is very simple with nothing fancy inside.

A two stories BH located on the top of a hill facing Southeast.

After a short walk around I listed to him a number of things that he should do to make sure the BH will hit 600 nests within the next 12 months.

Currently this unit, he got three more, the number of nests was around 120.

He called me just after three days and wanted me to carry out all the things that I have recommended.

Two days ago I took my two worker up and started work on some of those things to improve the nests population.

My first task was to install the hexagonal tweeter.

The second task was to upgrade those tweeters located at the main entrance hole.

I also installed two sets of external sound tweeters on the first door leading to the two floors.

I told the owner that currently most of those birds are staying on the top floor but it would be better for them to stay at the bottom floor.

Let me try to make the bottom floor more attractive as compared to the top most floor.

I started my mission by relocating the entrance door to the ground floor.

The entrance door was relocated which will make those birds easier to fly in.

The entrance door to the top floor is a bit more sharp to discourage them from populating the top floor.

The lower floor will have more attractive gadgets while the top floor will be with lesser gadgets.

There will be lots of cluster tweeters and together with it will be those styrofoam fake nests.

Just one day after some adjustments of the sound system, the crowd entering was very impressive.

I have instructed my workers to make sure that I can play two external sounds at any one time.

The external sound playing tweeters located inside the nesting rooms will be playing a special selected external sound at night.

There will be lots of pheromone smell inside this BH.

It will be very nice once the revamp is completed.

Tentative date of completion is this Sunday April 26th 2014.

Call me if you wish to come and see my master piece (0177551318)

Those Cement Nesting Platforms !!!

 

(Top Entry type)

A very rare case in Peninsular Malaysia where Meranti wood are easily available.

This four stories BH is using cement platforms as its nesting areas.

I took some pictures just to show all who have never seen one before.

It have its own advantages but there are lots of disadvantages too.

The way they are held to the cement ceiling is via those steel rods with locking nuts.

I have yet to climb up to view at close range but they looks solidly anchored to the cement roof to me.

One of the biggest problems is during any installation of tweeters and fake nests.

I used to use those phillip head screws to anchor my tweeters and fake nests.

Now it looks as if the old method is not applicable.

You need to drill the cement platform first and after that insert a plastic filler.

Once the filler is in place I can then screw those tweeters or fake nests in place.

What about the application of pheromone on them?

Never tried and I hope there wont be any reaction with the cement.

One big advantage over wood based nesting planks would be that it will not have fungus.

No matter how much water you sprayed inside your BH the cement platform will be always free of fungus growth.

One more advantage will be the nest size.

The birds tend to use more saliva and their nests will be larger in size.

I hope these strong points will give me all the reasons to drill the platform before installation of my tweeters and fake nests.

 

Pantai Remis Progress !!!

After about one and half months back into operation the BH seems to be doing well.

Today alone the number of birds entered was about 300 plus from a low of 150 birds prior to the revamp operation.

I might be looking at doing some minor adjustments on the sound arrangements and the installation of super pheromone auto spray on on the active floor.

Today I stopped by to carry out some checks to see if everything was okay.

The sounds seems to be running with no problem but its loudness seems to be a bit low.

I think those amplifiers after some time will start to loose it sounds volume.

Every time you visit your BH try to readjust the sound volume especially the external sound.

Can see more fake nests being occupied and the number of bird shit spots is growing.

I took some pictures and video clip to share with all of you.

Just relax and see some of the actions: