Basic Requirements For a Successful Swiftlet Farm

MACROHABITAT- means that before one starts a bird house,that area must be a swiftlet area. Ideally the surroundings should have 50% of low growing crops below 1 meter, 30% of high growing plants above 5 meters and 20% of water source like river or sea.

Swiftlets spend 12 hours a day flying none stop to catch insects. They will first hunt in short plants area (like padi field) from 6-10 am then 10am -1pm around high crops area,1-3pm or 4:30pm near water source and then back to low crops area from 3-6pm. Some birds with nestling will come back a few times to the farm to feed their young. Avoid building a farm near highly polluted area.

MICROHABITAT - This is where human involve the most. One will need to provide suitable conditions in a farm to attract swiftlets. The right temperature (26-30 degree C), humidity around 85% to 95%, right flying path where birds are easy to enter and leave the farm, free from disturbances like predators,winds,darkness of 2-6 lux,right entrance hole and etc are needed to imitate the conditions in caves when swiftlets naturally live. Bird calling chirp is also a very important factor. When are these factors are look into,the sucessful rate will be much higher.

Note :- You may contact Jason Lim at H/Phone No. 012-5860428 (through SMS) or eMail at jason168lim@gmail.com if you would like to :-

1. Build a Stand Alone Bird House

2. Look for a plot of Land to build a Bird House

3. Revive your existing unproductive Bird House

4. Convert your Shop House to be a Bird House

5. Buy some effective Bird Calling Sounds

6. Buy some Bird House Equipments

7. Improve the performance of your Bird House (to increase the No. of Bird Nests) and etc.