I visited many BHs belong to friends, blog readers and clients of contractor. The most common problem is the design of the BH, secondly is the temperature and humidity, thirdly is the sound and facing direction of the external and internal tweeter, and etc. Since a lot of swiftlet farmers still do not know the structure of a good BH, I will elaborate some over here.
A good BH consists of roving area, roving room and nesting room. Size of roving area and roving room minimum 4 x 4 meter to allow swiflets to manuver and turn freely, but some successful BH has roving room with smaller than this size. Yes, I agree. When was the BH set up? Nowaday, we must ensure that our BH to be attractive in such competitive situation.
The size of nesting room can be 4 x 6 meter. You can use full partition or hanging partition to divide the room. When you adopt full partition, you must be very careful about the flying path of the swiftlets in the BH. If you do not set up properly, it will slower the growth of swiftlets population.
Ceiling board can be used as partition. The roving room is created after the Main Entrance Hole to allow swftlets turn around before entering into nesting room. A partition will be erected between roving room and nesting room to block the light and wind.
I always mention that design is most importance in building a successful swiftlet farm, followed by sound and management. Others supplement such as extra feeding, aroma, and etc is used to enhance and increase the growth rate of the swiftlet population.
Have a successful farming!
