A two storey standalone joint venture BH belongs to four partners, because one of them is my business friend, I was invited to pay a visit to their sick BH some time ago located at North. This BH has been operating for almost three years but only 4 nests. This BH was actually DIY designed by these four partners after attending a Bird House Design Course conducted by a famous consultant, the course cost them thousand more each person.
The BH on oil palm plantation, a dog kennel type entry. Normal quality external sound was used, but no bird was playing at the entrance when we arrived. Exterior doesn’t seem much problem, and roving room slightly narrow but I think should still be OK. After seeing the interior, I think any experienced swiftlet farmer will be able to point out what’s wrong in there. Even the temperature and humidity were not wrong, but others. Very poor plank formation and structure, very few tweeters and not installed at right position, no any fake nest aiding, poor internal sound, and so on.
Obviously they had not done enough homework before started building their BH. They could only learn the basic BH concept from course but they have never practically studied swiftlet behaviour and understand swiftlet’s lifestyle well. I advised them to upgrade the plank structure, rearrange tweeters, change internal and external sound, and many others in detail. I will advise that if you intend to DIY a BH, make sure you are well prepared as such a failure would be very costly.
一间两层楼独立的燕屋由四个合作伙伴拥有，因为其中一个是我生意上的朋友，我应邀拜访他们位于北部一间不理想的燕屋。这燕屋已运作了将近三年，但仅只有四个窝。其实这间燕屋是这四个合作伙伴每人花千多元，在参加一个由一个著名的顾问主办的燕屋设计课程后，自己设计的。
燕屋建立在油棕园里，采用狗洞式入口。外声听来只是普通质量，我们到达时也没有燕子在门口玩。其实外部看来似乎没有太大的问题，漫游室稍微窄，但我觉得还不是大问题。再到室内看，那时我认为任何有经验的燕农都能指出那些问题。虽然温度和湿度没有问题，但其他的却都不对。很燕板结构不理想，喇叭太少而且安装位置不对，没有采用任何假窝协助，低质量内声，等等。
显然，他们在没有做足够的功课前已开始建立他们的燕屋。参加课程只能学习到基本原则概念，但他们从来没有实际的研究观察燕子的行为，和充分了解燕子的生活方式。我建议他们升级燕屋燕板结构，增加喇叭数目且重新排列其位置，更改内声和外声，和许多其他的东西和细节等等。我会建议，如果你打算自己设计燕屋，确定你做充分的准备，否则失败将会造成很大的损失。
The BH on oil palm plantation, a dog kennel type entry. Normal quality external sound was used, but no bird was playing at the entrance when we arrived. Exterior doesn’t seem much problem, and roving room slightly narrow but I think should still be OK. After seeing the interior, I think any experienced swiftlet farmer will be able to point out what’s wrong in there. Even the temperature and humidity were not wrong, but others. Very poor plank formation and structure, very few tweeters and not installed at right position, no any fake nest aiding, poor internal sound, and so on.
Obviously they had not done enough homework before started building their BH. They could only learn the basic BH concept from course but they have never practically studied swiftlet behaviour and understand swiftlet’s lifestyle well. I advised them to upgrade the plank structure, rearrange tweeters, change internal and external sound, and many others in detail. I will advise that if you intend to DIY a BH, make sure you are well prepared as such a failure would be very costly.
一间两层楼独立的燕屋由四个合作伙伴拥有，因为其中一个是我生意上的朋友，我应邀拜访他们位于北部一间不理想的燕屋。这燕屋已运作了将近三年，但仅只有四个窝。其实这间燕屋是这四个合作伙伴每人花千多元，在参加一个由一个著名的顾问主办的燕屋设计课程后，自己设计的。
燕屋建立在油棕园里，采用狗洞式入口。外声听来只是普通质量，我们到达时也没有燕子在门口玩。其实外部看来似乎没有太大的问题，漫游室稍微窄，但我觉得还不是大问题。再到室内看，那时我认为任何有经验的燕农都能指出那些问题。虽然温度和湿度没有问题，但其他的却都不对。很燕板结构不理想，喇叭太少而且安装位置不对，没有采用任何假窝协助，低质量内声，等等。
显然，他们在没有做足够的功课前已开始建立他们的燕屋。参加课程只能学习到基本原则概念，但他们从来没有实际的研究观察燕子的行为，和充分了解燕子的生活方式。我建议他们升级燕屋燕板结构，增加喇叭数目且重新排列其位置，更改内声和外声，和许多其他的东西和细节等等。我会建议，如果你打算自己设计燕屋，确定你做充分的准备，否则失败将会造成很大的损失。
Hi Plilip, I heard many of bird house located in durian tree, palm oil and other pokok tinggi area, facing the same problem as above, its true. tq wz.
ReplyDeletewz,
ReplyDeletesome people built BH on plantation just because their own a peice of land and making use of it without evaluating the population by bird test, but sometimes source of the young bird is the issue. That's why selection of location plays very important part. I do see many standalone bh in plantation also got good result. tq