(The B-52 Heavy Bomber)
This is what Mr. L from Kuala Lipis of Pahang responded. His had started his Bh for almost 4 years now. The first 2 years were wasted as he knew very little about Swiftlet farming and was leaded by the nose by a local consultant who also knew very little.
When he first meet me few years back his first question was “James how come there are not many birds and nests in my Bh could you help?”
I asked him, is the Rh reading of your Bh good, what is the temperature like, what is the micro condition and so on ? His reply was “sincerely James I don’t know, by the way what is all these things”.
Later I taught, I advice him to have hygrometers in him Bh to check the reading subsequently I visited his Bh and revamped few things. Reducing the size of the second entrance hole, changed the internal and external sound, etc….. From here he learns what Micro is and knows what are the criteria of a good Bh should be. He learns lots of technical stuff from sound system to Swiftlet farm maintenance. After having learned all theses he discovered that the last 2 years all the Rh, Temperature, light density, etc didn’t meet the basic requirements of a good Swiftlet farm. He was very sad because now he had discovered that someone who knows little about Swiftlet farming had built a Bh for him.
After he had learned all these he questioned his consultant who at that time still manages his farm about all these technical stuff. The consultant was totally lost and couldn’t answer him. With frustrations and felt cheated he sacked the consultant and decided to take care of the Bh himself. If my memory serve me well this was in early 2010. Ever since then he had followed my advice using Love potion on a regular basis without fail every 3 weeks once. He used many of the Gs series sound changing them seasonally. Although he had bought few quite expensive sounds from others but he still prefers the Gs series sound as he could see the result.
As today his Bh is reaching one thousand nests. He was extremely happy. Now he can be proud of himself.
He always says “James I did it in 2 years”.
While I always remind him that his Bh is already 4 years.
He insisted “No the earlier 2 years not counted because that F**ker Joker knows nothing and conned me, I sacked him and managed my Bh on your advise then only the number of nests shoot up”.
Know your Bh and learn what is important for your Bh. Every Bh is different. If you understand the basic and the micro you could solve lots of things in your Bh.
Don’t let the Blind lead the Blind. 8 out of 10 are leaded by the Blind.
Sad to say…. after providing advice and information here for almost 5 years now and there are still many people being leaded by the blind.
Good Swiftlet farming All.