(the new nest marking on all the corner boards that had being sprayed with Love Potion)
( full cup nests on corner board)
( beautiful quality nests , round and full)
(white and shinny nest)
(good cup size. White and shinny)
( Love Potion bottle left on the floor to indicate the top has been sprayed)Prior to Jerantut and Mentakab I was at Kuala Lips. Mr. Y of Kuala Lipis had many times invited me to visit his farm since last year to witness what Love Potion had done. As usual I was tight up with my other task. After the persistency of his many invitations this time I make it a point to visit his farm. In fact it is more of a visit for friendship.
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He had always tried to entice me with, “James come to K.Lipis . I will take you to eat the best and well known fresh water fish from Lipis River”.
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Patin and Jerawat fishes are the delicacy here and K.Lipis is famous for this. But food doesn’t really attracts me other that my passion for swiftlet farming. If I were to do it for the sack of money I wouldn’t be I am today.
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Mr.Y has been using Love Potion since May 2009. His farm started operation on the end of 2008. As on May 2009 when he first uses first bottle of Love Potion his nest count was 10 pieces. His farm was constructed by a local consultant as at that time he has very little knowledge about Swiftlet farming
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He is very consistent and without fail he orders Love Potion from me on a monthly basis. Before he met me he has very little knowledge about swiftlet farming. He can’t even distinguish between the Rh and Temp and their correlations. He used to call me and ask many questions. I had always told him “I can teach you anything as long you wish to learn”.
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Before he starts to use love potion I still remember there was once he called me and asked me why his 10 nests is cracking and there were holes on them.I told him that the Rh is not at the optimum level. I advise him to increase the Rh.
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I asked him what about the heat in your farm? He replied it is a bit little like sauna. I laughed and advise him you must bring the temperature down if you want your nest to increase.
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He went and told his consultant and his consultant replied “Don’t worry it is like this one. No need to put any humidifier one. I had done so many farms. I am very experience one”.
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He senses something not right and goes against his consultant advice and installs few humidifiers. He took my advice and Later sees his nests quality improved.
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He applied Love Potion at the same time without fail on an every 3 weeks period and sees changes in his farm. From stagnant growth of 10 nests in May 2009 and as today I visited his farm in Jan 2010 the nests count is 100 nests after a short period of 8 months.
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He is very happy because what he had done is paying off. Initially after a month he had followed my instruction he was very inpatient he called me, “James I see some changes. My nests have increased by not substantial how come?” I told him Swiftlets take-40 days or more to adapt to a new environment and another 45 days to make nests. Then he replied “I see oh”
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I am happy to see the improvement in his farm. This visit I also teach him how to push up the population of birds and nests. I had instructed him to reduce the size of the entrance hole.
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Also instructed him to add on and removing some partitions to create a better environment. I anticipated that to reach 200 nests in another 6-8 months time is not a problem at all perhaps it could be more.
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After visiting his farm we went for a quite lunch as I have another appointment to see another farm in Jerantut.
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Good Farming All!
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