The Super Pheromone Priority !!!

With many years experiences in swiftlet farming I think the use of Super Pheromone to get more birds to stay in your BH is my second most important priority.

The first will be a good set of external and internal sounds.

The second shall be the use of appropriate aroma to lure them to stay.  This is where this Super Pheromone will play its part.

The use of effective sound will draw those wild birds into your BH.  Depending on your BH design and the proper positioning of your external sound tweeters out of the 100% that entered your monkey house only around 20-30% will fly straight into your nesting room.

The rest will play mainly inside your monkey house and shortly after that will swooze out of window.

If they love the external sound they will play or attack your tweeters until they become tired and hungry.

If you are experience and knowledgeable enough you will install a number of external sound tweeters guiding these birds towards your VIP room (s).

In this way the percentage of birds entering your nesting room will increase to maybe 60%-80%.

Most BHs that I visited with very little nests or sick BHs are mostly due to little knowledge on how to pull all those that entered the monkey house to move into the nesting rooms.

You biggest function is to make sure that the number of birds that entered your BH will never miss to enter your nesting rooms.

Once they entered you need to think of the best methods or ways to force them to stay.

You have to list down all the proven methods to force them to stay or perhaps come back to stay as your permanent tenant.

There are many ways to force them to stay.

One of the many will be the smell of this "Super Pheromone".

Once you run a test with the product and you can see that your visitor love to cling onto those spots which you have sprayed, you have a big chance to quickly populate your BH.

You need to plan a strategy on how to populate them at which floors and which rooms.

You know that if you combine the use of this pheromone with fake nests will increase your chances please use a number of fake nests.

If I may suggest try to look into the possibility of combining the use of pheromone, fake nests with internal sound volume.

First and foremost you need to get your VIP rooms rewired and each VIP room will have a separate cables to allow you to increase or reduces its internal sound volume.

Label each cable and use them appropriately.

The room that you wanted to be populated first must be with the loudest volume and those pheromone shall be applied in that selected room.

Once this room is filled with a targeted number of nests you can now move to populate the second room using the same technique deploying the high volume and pheromone spraying inside it.

Just have a try and I can guarantee you that it will be the best thing ever happen to your BH.

Product Test In Karak, Pahang !!!

Look at those saliva markings on the tweeter?

A proper test was carried out in a stand alone BH located somewhere at Karak, Pahang.

This BH have shown a reasonable number of birds occupying the three VIP rooms.

Currently with 9 visible fully formed nests and two inside those silicone fake nests.

I wanted to see if my Super Pheromone works or not.

The first thing I did was to pin point where are are currently occupying.  You can easily find the answer by looking at their shits on the floor.

Those with signs of shit but no nests will be a good candidates.

Climb up you ladder and check the tweeters closed to those location which you thing they are clingging to during the night.

Have a good look for any signs of saliva makings or any signs of bird's feathers around the area.

If there is than the couple must have just started or used to start there. This will be a good choice to spray the pheromone.  Make it a bit thick or double the normal dosages.

If there is none you can still spray some of the pheromone. Once or two spray will be enough.

Put some markings like a white sticker below it.

Once you have finished spraying the selected locations try to spray a bit of the pheromone at the main entrance window frame.

Be careful when climbing the ladder.

Let see if there will be any change next month.

Spray above a working tweeter is a good choice

Another working tweeter

At 90* fake nest.  

At 180* fake nest

Above a half 90* wood corner.

The First Sign Of Success In West Malaysia!!!

(A super long fake nests sprayed with Pheromone)

A very very interesting development on the effectiveness of using Super Pheromone in Peninsular or West Malaysia.

It happened at a BH located somewhere at Paya Terubong on Penang Island.

I was having a very tough time to get this BH populated.

This BH was being converted from a three stories shop house to BH (top two floors).

It went into operation for about 2 years when the owner seek my help through a good friend.

I managed to rework the entrance hole and the rooms plus those tweeters.  I told the owner to minimize his exposure and just concentrate on the top most floor.

The idea went well but after more that 8 months the result was not to his satisfaction.

I was asked for another opinion.  This time I proposed that the top entry system be converted to a monkey house with four windows.

He agreed and allocated the necessary budget.

It went to operation for about three to four months and there was some improvements but the real activities went high after my introduction of the "Super Pheromone".

It used to have about 8-10 nests and now more than 70 nests.  Nearly all those fake nests that was sprayed with the pheromone have tenants.

I was very excited to discover the effectiveness after using the special swiftlet portion.

Prior to this I know that the pheromone works well in Sabag, Sarawak, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Now I can say that it works well in Peninsular too but in Penang.

I have a few new locations under trial and I hope once this new product is good I will surely announce to all my blog readers.

To see that it works well in Penang is something special and I am looking forward for more good news from Pahang, Trengganu and N9.

Let me show you some photos to prove that it works:

A Nest at the end of the super long fake nest.

Signs of markings.

A plastic fake nest with cloth covering seems to be their favourite.

Cloth covered fake nest with baby birds

A sponge fake nests after sprayed.

Another fake nest sprayed and with baby inside

another similar fake nest.

It Shall Be Guided By How Many Birds Enter Your BH !!!

One special question and one special answer:

"Pak Harry if I know by counting them entering in the evening that only 100 birds entered my BH how many spots should I spray with the "Super Pheromone"?"

If you want to maximise the use of the Pheromone you can follow this simple rules:

1) If you count the number of birds that entered your BH in the evening you should be able to decide how many spots should your spray with the Super Pheromone.

2) The way to go is to divide the number of birds that entered by two.

3) For example your count during one evening the day before was 50 birds, you divide that with 2 equals 25.

4) However if you have say 10 nests already being tenanted you deduct the number from the 25 which drop the number of spots to 15.

By using this simple technique you will maximise the use of this Super Pheromone.

If you sprayed at too many spots say in this case 15 is ideal and you spray 50 spots, you are actually wasting the chemical.

The issue here is that once the 15 couples have selected the 15 spots the rest are idling and they will be eventually dried and bring little benefits to you and your pheromone.

You might want to add 5 more spots but not 35.

Repeat the whole process for the next application operation.

The next common question:

"Where should I apply the Pheromone?"

If you want the pheromone to work well try to firstly locate where are their favourite spots where most of your tenants are staying.

You can recognize the favourite spots by looking at their bird shit spots.

Usually these swiftlet prefer to hide at any dark corners or any room that have the loudest sounds being played.

Once you have located this favourite place you can try to plan your spraying strategies.

Choose those spots that are closed to where you can see lots of bird shit below it.

If there are corners or fake nests closed to those spots choose these locations.

"How many times should I squeeze the nozzle per spot?"

My best recommendation is not more than two.

However when your canister is new you need to spray only one time.

To those that have any doubts please email your quires to harryswiftlet@yahoo.com

New Batch Of Super Pheromone Just Arrived !!!

Almost two weeks without any canister in my stock however it eventually arrived.

I received a call from the forwarding agent located somewhere at Bukit Kemuning, Shah Alam Selangor to come and collect.

This time got a total of 11 boxes each with 30 canisters with a total of 330 pieces.

The 11 boxes looks good and I was happy that there were no damage shown on each box.

Collected the item and loaded onto my small car.

Got to keep them in a cool and dry place somewhere.

Already received orders for about three boxes and hope to pack and ship them out by next week.

The problem which is troubling me is the rejection by Post Malaysia if I send them by air.

These canister packing are not suitable for air freight.

They claimed that it will explode when high up in the air due to pressure reduction.

I am not very sure if it is true that they will explode but I am sure most of the time if they check and fond it they will call me to collect it back.

That will mess up my shipment for I need to resend via sea.

Messy messy thing but we need to accept it.

To those who wanted to use this Super Pheromone please be well aware of those shipping problems.