Standalone BH more difficult to succeed than town BH? 独立式燕屋比市镇燕屋更难成功？

I am often asked the same question, is standalone BH especially on the plantation or remote location more difficult to succeed than BH operated in town? There are actually many reasons, but I think the key factor that most potentially leading to the failure on standalone BH is the shortage of source of young swiftlets. We know that a new BH will need to depend on other BH from their new generated young swiftlet to migrate. BHs in town are normally very close to each other, and source of young swiftlet seldom be shortage but other factors like design, sound, BH condition, strategy and others play more critical role for success.

Some owners build their standalone BH on their land just because their own peice of land, building BH on it just wanted to further utilize it without considering the suitability. I will advise who intend to build their standalone BH better to do site survey like bird call test, flying path observation, food source etc, those evaluation can actually help us to understand risk better before proceeding further. Source shortage may not lead to failure totally but slow growth even with good design and proper in others especially in the initial stage, if you will want to go ahead make sure your patience is prepared for it. Failure on standalone BH you would lose everything including the building cost unlike town BH, but it’s got other advantage ie. less competition, licensing entitlement, complaint free.

我常常被问同样的问题，独立式燕屋尤其是在园地里或远程位置是否比镇燕屋更难成功？其实有很多原因，但我认为最关键的因素导致独立式燕屋失败的原因是年轻燕子来源短缺的问题。我们知道，一个新的燕屋将需要依赖其他燕屋生产的年轻燕子到来定居。市镇的燕屋通常都互相非常接近，燕子来源短缺问题较少，但其它因素像燕屋设计，燕声和战略等其他因素变成燕屋成功较大的关键因素。

有些业主在他的土地上建立自己独立式燕屋只因为是他们自己的土地，建立燕屋只是想充分利用他的土地而没考虑它是否适合。我会建议任何人如果打算建立自己的独立式燕屋最好做到当地燕声测试调查，观察燕群飞行路径，食物来源等等，这些估计其实可以帮助我们更了解其风险，然后再作下一步决定。燕子来源短缺可能不会导致完全失败，但燕群增长缓慢尤其是在初始阶段，即使有良好的设计和其他良好的条件，如果你还是要继续进行建立燕屋，确保你有耐心的心理准备。独立式燕屋失败你将损失一切包括建立燕屋的成本，其不同于市镇燕屋，但它也有它其他优点如竞争少，合法性，没投诉烦恼。