In order to have good quality White Nests the Rh of the Bh has to be at 80-90% constantly, good temperature control and there should be small movement of air in the Bh environment. Other factors which many believe the surrounding environment, the habitat, the pollution, etc also affect the quality of the nests.
Thru my years of experiments I had always wanted to find out, are all these factors really matter? Which one is true and which one is myth?
Yes Rh, Temperature, Plank material and formation, sound and Aroma really play a part in it, other than that many are just myths.
Lately thru my many months of experiments I discovered one simple thing that changes my views on how to create clean white nests.
I had posted about using plastic netting on corners on my previous article you may check it out. A simple plastic netting installed onto a corner board as the result birds build clean thick beautiful white nest on them. As you could look at the picture I only installed it on one side of the four corner boards, purposely to see the differences between those without the netting. Within 2 months a clean white nest was built. Really amazing that is not all. The plastic netting also helps young birds to build nests faster. It is absolutely a must for new Bh.
While installing the Plastic netting I also changed the internal Sound to P-9. I discovered most internal sounds in the market are too disturbed. There don’t have the smoothing tune in it. Most are out of tune that won’t calm the birds (anyway most won’t know or notice it). This would affect the nest building process. Birds that are not calm would build bad quality nests.( elongated, thin, out of shape, dirty with feathers, etc)
Thru this experiment I discovered that not only White Clean nests were built it also helped young birds to build nests faster on all those corners that have the plastic netting.
Bear in mind there are big differences between using plastic nets and steel nets. The results are different. It is always kind of weird in Swiftlet farming “little changes make big differences”.
Don’t forget after installed all these plastic netting spray Love Potion on all walls 1-2 ft below the planks. You would see faster and better results.
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(Note: The Bhs tested with plastic netting were located in a polluted town “Klang Town Center”)
Good Swiftlet farming!