Sunday, May 6, 2012

3 storey Swiftlet Farm Completed

 Last week I was in Bintulu, Sarawak  to check the progress of a 3 storey Bh that I had designed. The contractor and the owner did a fantastic job. I am very pleased and satisfied with what they had done. Good Job Done!

This Bh is facing an open green field and farming area. The local here are mostly Iban. Every evening Swiftlet would roam this area for food therefore the entrance hole are purposely designed to face the green field.

 Houses of the natives and their farm lands opposite the Bh's entrance.

Entrance Hole with tweeters of External sound 

The size of the Entrance hole is just right with the tweeter at both side and bottom. 

High quality of meranti wood planks from West Malaysia. No wood eye, no black and white spots and definitely no fungus. Dark pink in color.


The tweeter arrangement here is to create a lively internal sound environment. I do not believe in to many tweeters because it is too artifical. Optimum level is the best, as we know in Swiftlet farming everything must be in balanced. Too little no good, too many is bad. You could easily find many evidences in your own Bh which would support my statement. This is not rocket science you could see it youself  Example: Too Hot 31C and above birds wont stay, Too cool below 25C the same. Too high Rh 100% all nests turn color , too dry Rh 65% all nests cracked. Too bright birds won't stay,  too dark young birds can't find their ways out and die in the bh.

So did you get it? Everything must be at optimum level .If you still don't get what I mean then Swiftlet farming is not your cup of tea.

I have seen and came across many Bhs using too many tweeters  to an extend of almost every planks or boxes between planks have tweeters. I asked them why? They replied "My Sifu said so" Some up to 250 tweeters for 1200sf that is ridiculous.

Yes often we see Birds shits below the tweeters, this must have transpired many people to think that the more tweeters the better (to a certain extend it is true that birds like hanging on tweeters). But in Swiftlet farming it doesn't work this way. If more tweeters is the absolute solution then all Bhs in Malaysia increase the Tweeters in their Bhs, as many as possible probably every square feet each then all Bhs in Malaysia would be 100% successful and there would be no failed Bh anymore. (OK that is enough, otherwise those who sell tweeters would be very angry with me for stating such statement).


The Inter hole is large enough for the birds to reach all floors and small enough to reduce light and glaring.

Without forgetting Love Potion which is a must to repel all the cement smell and at the same time to attract the birds to enter the Bh to build nests.

The second and third entrance hole to the nesting area with P-9 hypnotic internal sound to attract birds to stay and build nests.

The Sound control room with individual Hi power Amp for every floor. With such setting all internal sounds of all 3 floors could run 24/7 without any problem.

Good Swiftlet farming All!
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