Finding a Suitable Sound for your BH!

Sound is the most important component for success of your BH. However, if you are using the best sound and expecting your BH will be a full-house some days in the near future then it is a big mistake for swiftlet farming beginners!

In the past, I used the best sound in the market and my BH was almost always attracted many  birds. They were gathering above roof top,  from outside to inside ... many people thought that my BH was full of nests  but they were wrong... I got a few nests ... just enough for my special bird nests soup! lots of fun and sparked my researching of swiftlet farming.

Birds are usually enjoying new and attractive sound but it does not mean that they will stay in your bird house and build their nests.


Many things must be done correctly, many issues must be solved, many problems must be fixed. Are your BH ready? At last, Sound is a big help if you are choosing the most suitable sound especially for breeding cycle. Answer by yourself these questions:

What sound should I play during a day, night, internal, VIP rooms, external, pooling?
What sound should I play when there are many young birds around?
What sound should I play when the young birds are about to mate?
What sound should I play to attract birds come and stay in my BH?
What sound should I play when I want bird build their nests?
What sound should I play when birds are giving eggs, incubation?
What sound should I play when birds are mature?
What sound should I play when my BH is 100 nests, 300 nests or more?
Why some succeed BHs have never played any sound at all?

With today sound technology like free, open source Audacity and its plugins, with a few basic good sounds, you can create many untested sounds on the fly ... Mix and remix at unit sound level, section or whole song level... Right! It is simple. Once you setup Audacity correctly then it takes about 15 min per sound: Import ... Mix ... Apply plugins... Export as many new sounds as you would like.  However, you must test them to find the suitable sounds for your BH then you will uncover many tricky secrets...Mating and Baby sounds are "must have" sounds ... I always use my customized sounds and developed strategies of what? when? where? to play these sounds...the purpose is to guide the birds found new home!


Breeding cycles is changing and there is no best sound for all time! You must change your tested sound accordingly.

Best Months Ever! Be a Master Sifu!

Oct-Nov are the best months in the year! The number of nests in My BH are increasing 250%! Many New bird shit spots were all around the floors. Many birds are flying inside and many others are staying in their nests.


I'm looking back the logs to study what I have done right:

1) I applied insecticide on Aug. After I found out that cockroaches ate many nests. Comfortable living principle.
2) I  made my new mixed internal sound and made it lower a bit especially at the entrance holes. More comfortable, more confidence for bird to enter. Following sound principle.
3) I installed many clusters of tweeters in VIP rooms and playing external sound remixed baby sound and louder so that birds are easy to find way in. VIP principle.
4) I made new melody that rotating sounds for external tweeters. Birds are still enjoying old sounds with new remix. Sound is one of many important components for your success.
5) I set pooling sound that is playing on certain hours of a days. Birds are boring when hearing all day long. Attracting them by adding surprising good sound. Surprising principle.
6) Automating misting systems. It operates more reliable than human in case of power outage. Automation principle.
7) I applied newly discovered aroma. Following Aroma principle.
8) I adjusted environment so that Temperature and humidity are always in ideal range.
9) I added more partitions to reduce light intensity around 5 LUX.
10) Some minor improvements to reduce noise level...

It seems birds have satisfied with most of things I had done for them!

Afternoon til Evening, many birds are coming home. They are flying through the entrance holes directly and sometime the "flow rate" is 4, 6, 8 birds at once per second! Birds found their home and of course productivity are increasing exponentially.

One advice for BH owner: For success swiftlet farming business, you must be a Master!

Developing Ecosystem for your Bird House

Having a controllable ecosystem for swiftlet is the key for success. I mentioned the birds population will be doubled for each season. Yes, in theory! You can not just build the bird house and then expect it growths...exponentially! The key is planning and strategizing what to do and when to do based on many variables and conditions of your BH.


A bird house is a biological environment not only for swiftlets but also for all the organisms living as well as non-living things such as microorganism in water, wet soil...The environment that have less sunlight 5LUX, limited ventilation system in range .02m/s to 1m/s, 28 degree C in temperature, humidity 85%, no human interaction ...are ideal for growing both fungus and birds.

You must be mastering the techniques how to control your ecosystem:
How to make micro-oragmism become beneficial micro-organism for the birds.
How to enrich their healthy living life in your bird house.
How to stop those fungus in the nest planks.
How to use insecticide to kill all predators like cockroach, gecko, snakes, mice, owl ...
How to reduce noise, stress but increase enjoyable environment.
How to make sure nothing will interrupt the mating process but increase it.
....
Then you can expect your swiftlet colonies will be growing exponentially!

I'll expose each of these techniques in details in my blogs!

Three physical criterias for Successful Operation of a Bird House:Automation!, Automation! and Automation!

The most important for BH operation are Sounds systems: External, Internal Systems, Pooling system, Nesting rooms systems. Each system is changing every songs per hours per day per season.
External Systems are playing different songs at peak time than normal time and feeding signal for about 50 external speakers.
Internal Systems are playing day and night 24/7 different songs and feeding signal for more than 500 speakers

Humidity control systems are always up. Misting Pump Systems run every hour. Automatically adjust humidity, temperature level whenever needed to increase humidity and yet keep temperature down.
Water Pumps run whenever needed to fill up water into upper containers for Misting System.

Temperature control systems are running. Internal Ponds with water and keep the BH cool down.
Underground reservoirs always full of water to prepare for the BH.

Security systems are up 24/7. Surveillance Cameras, recorder with Audio are operating day and night at every important angle of the BH. Counting and Timing how many birds are vising, how many birds are coming home  are importance for measure the success. Internet connection must be up 24/7 for remote access whenever needed.

You couldn't make decision, do things without "power"! Power outage is big issue for BH. Without power, it is the dead BH. Therefore, UPS, ATS, Batteries, Generator must be ready to backup all the systems above.

These are just physical components of a successful BH and I will expose them in my blogs!

Truong Dinh National Hero Status in Go Cong

Go Cong is beautiful town today! I couldn't imaging it until I came back... Lots of swiftlets especially at evening near shopping area beside a small river. Hence, lots of bird houses were built or remodeled around these area.
They are becoming Swiftlet farmers accidentally! Just like our universe... It was beginning accidentally from the Big Bang...


Truong Dinh National Hero Status in Go Cong

Breeding season!

After quite month in September, October is busy month. Swiftlets are increasing activities on the top roof. They are chasing each other around external speakers and entering directly to the monkey house. They are ready to breed and You must be ready for this month! Don't interrupt these birds and let they go naturally!
Remember this formular for your income per year:
1000 birds x 2 children x 2 productive seasons (not 3 because young birds need time to mature)= 4000 birds
If you have techniques to keep all them then all in your BH then you have
4000 x 40% = 1600 nests
If 100 nests weight 1kg then you have
16 kg.
If 2000 USD per kg then you have 16 x 2000 = 32000 USD per year

Remember to Multiply number of birds by 4 (=2 children x2 seasons) for every year!!!

And compare to number of birds that you have in your BH then you can measure how success you are in this business!!!

And multiply by number of BHs you have too!
How many nests for a successful BH within five years?

Hit a jackjot! Aroma for swiftlets

I have been researching the right aroma for swifter for more than a year, finally I found a right formula!
My worker applied it on the morning, the next day, there were about 1000 or more birds coming... We couldn't count exact numbers of the birds because they were so much and entered directly to the bird house! We just gave up counting!
Fermented birdshit and seaweed are important components for the aroma. Birdshit provide bird's smell while seaweed provide fishy smell and vitamins like A, B2, C... Iron, potassium, calcium for supplemental. Aroma should be a healthy combination of smell and food, water.

Stablizing humidity inside a bird house

Beside misting system that have been pumping mist automatically every hour, I built a internal water fall and ponds for swiftlets to enjoy bathing and stabilizing humidity for BH.

Stabilizing 80%-90% humidity using the ponds is cheapest way. I found that the surface of water of your BH must be 1/3 of the total surface of your BH in order to stabilizing humidity to 85%.

Misting systems are adding 5% to 10% more to accomplish ideal level.

Swiftlet nests = White Gold!

It is a biggest nest! After harvested, a couple built a second nest at the same size and the same location!
6,7 nests weight about 100g and 1kg of these raw nests is about 2000 USD
If Everything are alright, I could harvest 40kg in one season...

No wonder, some investors they had 10 or even 25 bird houses!

Swiftlets visiting on the morning

Finally, my BH was built successfully!
It is a huge 4 stories bird house in this area!
And lots of swiftlets were visiting at the first day I turned on the amplifiers!

Many thanks to 30 workers and my relatives who have worked hard for 6 months to make my dream (half of my dream) came true! This was my biggest investment so far after the investment on my children!
Here is my true story: One local contractor threaten me before that without his works, my BH won't have a single bird! ... The other promised that if I used him my BH would have birds in the next day! Otherwise, my BH will be empty!... He will walk by his knees, or he will give up his career if I could do it myself! He swore! and even worst, they asked some neighbors to close all entrances so I couldn't construct my BH in my properties! The chosen contractor have done 3/5 works and took all construction, consultant money included money from his workers then ran away. He abandoned his workers. I didn't think that you had ever faced the worst case scenarios as I had. No problem! I determined that I would take over and do it from A-Z myself with all costs! and I did successfully!
Ironically, these so-called Sifu built BHs in my neighborhood and their BHs had no nest for years! Their BHs are failed BHs! They are struggling to meet the basics of Swiftlet Farming!!! Of course, those Sifu asked my workers what have I been done? what were "the secret ingredients"? Honestly, I told my workers that I had the "Dragon Scroll" and I am able to defeat any outlawed Sifu!

Lesson learned you must be swiftlet farming master: do BH by yourself and hire workers, constructor and pay them by day basic.


Those swiftlets are visiting new BH in the morning

Building a BH from ground up!

This was not an easy task since I managed it using video technologies remotely!


Thank to more than 30 workers, contractors who were working hard for 6 months!