Extra Feeding for swiftlet

Drosophila or often called "fruit flies” are very suitable for swiftlet. These insects have a high protein and you can attact & breed these insects by following: 

1)1KG oatmeal/careal powder (you can buy cheap cereal, and then blend it)

2) 1KG of soybean meal (can use flour, but not very effective



3) 0.25k KG milk

4) 1KG chicken or pig food (you can buy from poultry shop

5) 4 liters of hot water

Mix items 1, 2, 3 & 4. Cereal flour, soybean flour, milk, chicken or pig diets provide  adequate vitamin and minerals for Drosophila to growth.

Later add hot water to these materials and mix evenly. You can also add a little baking powder to attract Drosophila.

After completion pour it into the bucket place in roving room. Drosophila will be attracted to the smell & begin to lay eggs, then into larva, the pupa and then into Drosophila. 

Remember to ensure the food is always wet & add some water to it went necessary. The breeding insects will be continue until your food is gone.

Best aroma???

Do you have the an best aroma? To prove the effectiveness of the aroma, look at the below picture(circle area which was spray with aroma):

PLEASE DO NOT FOOL BY THE ABOVE PICTURE.

I don't have the best aroma & I have shared with you my 'secret recepist' in my previous post. The above picture capture in CCTV which is my 'accident' findings during a night visit. Once you enter the BH at night, the birds will be frightened & fly & hide at one corner which you can see in the pictures.
Please do not try to enter you BH at night as it will scare the birds.  I enter due to the BH alarm trigger & CCTV captured somebody try to enter the BH. Of cause the burglar run off once the alarm trigger.

Plan for my new BH

This few weeks busy with my office work & at the same time negotiating on the purchase of corner lot double storey shop office with the existing owners.  Finally conclude the sale & sale & purchase agreement signed.  Below is the sketch of the double storey shop office.

I plan to convert it to 3 storey (1st & 2nd floor as BH. Ground floor maintain as shop for rent). The design is little bit difference from my previous BH. The inter hole(LAL) open at 1st floor rather then 2nd floor which mean it go from 1st floor up to 2nd floor (go up rather then go down as most of the BH).  My initial plan as follow:

Please feel free to comments.  Will update the progress once the work comments.

Fake nest soke with bird nest aroma

We normally will soak the fake nest with bird nest aroma before we install in the BH.

This is not a cooking oil.  this is a birds nest aroma.

Fake nest put into the bottle.

Mix birds nest aroma with fake nest.

Keep the soak fake nest in a bottle for few days.

Install the fake nest.







Styrofoam fake nest attract birds to build nest

The benefit of fake nest:
1) attract new tenant to build nest,
2) retain the young birds in the BH which do not have experience to build nest,
3) attract the emergency couple from the existing BH or others BH which nest being wrongly harvest by owners.

'Original' & 'Safe' Bird nest aroma

What you need are as following:
1) raw nests. Choose the low quality nest (broken,contaminated, loose nest) to reduce the cost of preparing the aroma.



2)distilled water
3)some bottles with caps

First you soak the nests inside a container by using normal distilled water & let it ferment for about 2 to 3 weeks.

When it start smelling "good" (only swiftlet farmer will say so) you then get ready to transfer to your BH or use to soak your fake bird nest. Spray a little bit on nesting plank (only spray on the nesting plank without nest, don't try to disturb the plank with nest).  This is a most 'original' & 'safe' birds nest aroma.

Beautiful nest

This beautiful nest was wrong harvest during the CNY.  We believe the nest is still new & the birds have yet to lay eggs in the nest.  Sorry...my dear birds.  Hope the newly install fake bird nest will help...

Revamp a farm during CNY2011

Take the opportunity to revamp a BH which is not doing very well.  We try to analyse & identify the problems.    What we manage to do during the CNY:
1. Change the sound - increase the piyik sound for internal & external sound,

2.  More partition & VIP room for the birds to feel be more secured,

3. rearrange the external sound speaker to increase the effectiveness of pulling the birds into the BH

4.  to install additional boozoka

5. install more fake nest.

Hope all this will attract the new tenants to the BH.

Harvest during CNY2011

The best of swiftlet farming is that you can do it part timely. This CNY went back to my home town & do the harvest. Soon passive income will be more then fixed monthly salary...

Effectiveness of fake nest

There are difference type of fake nest that can be install in your BH to encourage birds to built nest.  My favourite still on the styrofoam fake nest.  The reasons are that you can craft the shape based on creativity & styrofoam that you have.  I normally use the recycle styrofoam to craft the fake nest.  Take a look at my 'product'.

Lets take a look at the nest build on the fake nest.  The nest may not look beautiful & the value/grade will be lower.  Who care, our purpose of fake nest is to encourage bird to build nest & increase our tenants.