Double BirdNest

In my BH, there is a new birdnest build on a old brid nest, its as shown in the attached picture.

It look like the swiftlets found the old birdnest not suitable anymore and I do not harvest it, luckily they do not gone away and built a new nest on their old birdnest. I will do the harvest on next harvest circle.

BH progress update

Today visited BH to check the progress, here the summary:



1. Adding 1 fullcup Birdnest, 1 bird nest marking, 1 new bird shit spot (maybe more as the floor is flood with water on certain area)

2. The new bird nest, marking and birdshit spot not at the applied Aroma area

3. Continue apply the Aroma at the same spot to see the result again on next visit.

4. Today tested some external sound and found 2 effective, replaced with one of them and the results as per attached 2 links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8lsgbYQFNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6LN-vlNGcE


With the good response of replaced new external sound hope next visit has good result in my BH.

"Fade" RM50 Notes

2 months ago received 10 pieces of RM50 notes from friend which he withdrawn from ATM machine. Recently the balance of 2 pieces in a pocket of trouser were accidentally washed by washing machine.

After dried and the RM50 notes colour faded away as per attached. Verified with some friend and a money changer confirmed they are not fake notes. I don't why the quality of the new notes is not some good now as we had many notes accidentally washed also no such problem.

If you have such problem, may countercheck and exchange it with Bank Negara.

Good demand of Bird Nest

Last week visited Hong Kong for Holiday with family. Shop a long the street from Yau Ma Tei to Tsim Sha Tsui, a lot of bird nest shops. There is plenty of demand for Hong Kong and from the report got fom the website reported for Hong Kong importing about 100 tons of bird nest annually. There are more demand for Taiwan and China which multiple times more then HK. This create a huge demand, the market of the bird nest is booming and the price has reported have double in recents year. It is a good business!!

Visited a new BH

Recently visted a new BH and found internal tweeter used for playing external sound. The sound can can be hear very loud near the enterance hole, but I am sure it would able to travel far. I advice him to change those currenty used tweeter to those external type with longer horn so the external sound able to travel far to attract swiftlet that travel high up aboe the BH.

As for the internal and nesting area, I advice him to install more tweeter and also add some corner and fake nest. Will follow up with him any changes he has been done and update the BH progress again.

Here the type of tweeter he is using for external sound. What do you think the effectiveness of the tweeter for external sound?

"Luck" in Swiftlet Farming

I know in the market all the sifu will tell that good knowledge, good design of the BH, using good sound, good Aroma and technology definitely will success.



Do you think so?



I do believe the techique, knowledge and equipments (sound, humidifier, Aroma, etc..) that currently availble in the market do help a certain degree. I still believe there is another part of "Luck" do contribute to the success of a BH. It is like do a business, for example open a restaurant. Someone with better food and nicer then their neighbor, but with less business. How many percent of "Luck" is vary person to person, some may be 30/70 or 20/80 or 10/90.... About me, I believe is 20/80.

Using Aroma updates #1

So far, there is no sign of bird nest increase after applied Aroma for a months. Continue apply the Aroma and will see the results a month later.