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.
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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!