- Introduction
- Most fascinating about AF
- How many feathers???
- Breeding characters
- Nest building
- Feathers on the nest
- Young chicks characters
- AF babies life cycle
- Sexual maturity
- Number of eggs and their characters
- Their eggs shapes
- Their weakness
- Another weakness
- Their special gift
- Their effect of external sound
- Internal sound effect
- The important of morning light
- Fooding behaviors
- Select proper time to test
A. All you need to know about swiftlet.
1. Introduction:
- Swiftlet is a very unique creature that have many secrets and gifted.
- If you want to be a successful swiftlet farmer my advise to you is to learn as much as you can about their characteristics.
- Learn above what they likes and dislikes.
- The only way to get them to stay in your new BH is to "cheat" them using those knowledge acquired.
2. Most fascinating about AF:
- They can fly at a top speed of 12km/hr.
- They can fly non-stop for 72 hours.
- They do not rest the moment they come out of their nest.
- They have a set of legs that will not allow them to stand up but can only cling to any rough surfaces.
- They cannot jump but will usually release their grip and takes a fall before flying.
- They are loners and usually hunts alone.
- They have this special gift that allows them to be able to fly in total darknes.
3. How many feathers???
- They have 17 feathers on each wing.
- At their tail they have 10 feathers.
4. Breeding characters:
- They are a monogamous.
- Once paired they will be married for life.
- The male will start the nest biulding.
- Once about half finished the female will inspect the nest before allowing the male to mate.
- They copulate day and night for eight days.
- Once copulation takes place, she will lay her 1st egg on the 8th day.
- The second egg will be laid on the 9th or the 10th day.
- The sex orgy is over once she lay he first egg.
- Both parent now will take turns to incubate their two eggs.
5. Nest building:
- Once the nests is accepted by the female the two will helps each other to finish up the construction.
- They use their saliva as the main building materials.
- For identification purposes, they will laced their nest with their feathers.
- They loved to build their nest at those 900 corners.
- They also loves the top part pf the nesting planks and corner covers.
- Once they have selected the nest location they will always return to breed at the same location.
6. Feathers on the nest
7. Young chicks characters:
- Once hatched AF young babies are blind and totally naked.
- Their claws will allow them to grip to the nest's seat.
- They can live without water or food for about two days.
- If there is no food after that they will release their grip and crawl out of their nest. They will actually commit suicide.
- They only use their sense of hearing and smell to detect their surrounding.
- Any vibration will indicate that their parent are back with food.
8. AF babies life cycle:
- From hatching to taking their first flight the baby birds takes around 45 days.
- Within 4 weeks they will outgrown their nest and both babies needs to stay outside by clinging to their nest wall.
- Once they reached 43 days old they will stop eating.
- They will start to flap their wings to test and build their flying muscles.
- They love to sing during this stage of their life.
- They will take their first flight on the 45th day (approximate).
9. Sexual maturity:
- Once they can fly, they will escort their parent out but will not fly too far from their nest. Usually on the 45th and 46th days.
- They will return to their nesting house to take a short rest before flying out again.
- They will learn to catch those flying insect around the house but will need to come in and rest after 2-3 hours of flying time.
- They will also learn how navigate to their nest in total darkness during the two days.
- They will only be sexually matured within 5-6 months after their first flight.
- Once matures they will paired with a partner for life
- Every year the female will lay two eggs for three seasons per year.
- They have a life span of about 9 to 12 years.
- If their partner should die there is little chance to breed again.
10. Number of eggs and their characters:
- Each couple will only lay two eggs during every breeding cycle.
- If there are three, one of them must have come from another couple.
- The two eggs will be one female and the other male.
- The egg shapes: one totally tear shape while the other oblong.
- The tear shape egg will generate female baby.
- The oblong shape will generate male baby.
11. Their eggs shapes
12. Their weakness:1. Introduction:
- Swiftlet is a very unique creature that have many secrets and gifted.
- If you want to be a successful swiftlet farmer my advise to you is to learn as much as you can about their characteristics.
- Learn above what they likes and dislikes.
- The only way to get them to stay in your new BH is to "cheat" them using those knowledge acquired.
2. Most fascinating about AF:
- They can fly at a top speed of 12km/hr.
- They can fly non-stop for 72 hours.
- They do not rest the moment they come out of their nest.
- They have a set of legs that will not allow them to stand up but can only cling to any rough surfaces.
- They cannot jump but will usually release their grip and takes a fall before flying.
- They are loners and usually hunts alone.
- They have this special gift that allows them to be able to fly in total darknes.
3. How many feathers???
- They have 17 feathers on each wing.
- At their tail they have 10 feathers.
4. Breeding characters:
- They are a monogamous.
- Once paired they will be married for life.
- The male will start the nest biulding.
- Once about half finished the female will inspect the nest before allowing the male to mate.
- They copulate day and night for eight days.
- Once copulation takes place, she will lay her 1st egg on the 8th day.
- The second egg will be laid on the 9th or the 10th day.
- The sex orgy is over once she lay he first egg.
- Both parent now will take turns to incubate their two eggs.
5. Nest building:
- Once the nests is accepted by the female the two will helps each other to finish up the construction.
- They use their saliva as the main building materials.
- For identification purposes, they will laced their nest with their feathers.
- They loved to build their nest at those 900 corners.
- They also loves the top part pf the nesting planks and corner covers.
- Once they have selected the nest location they will always return to breed at the same location.
6. Feathers on the nest
7. Young chicks characters:
- Once hatched AF young babies are blind and totally naked.
- Their claws will allow them to grip to the nest's seat.
- They can live without water or food for about two days.
- If there is no food after that they will release their grip and crawl out of their nest. They will actually commit suicide.
- They only use their sense of hearing and smell to detect their surrounding.
- Any vibration will indicate that their parent are back with food.
8. AF babies life cycle:
- From hatching to taking their first flight the baby birds takes around 45 days.
- Within 4 weeks they will outgrown their nest and both babies needs to stay outside by clinging to their nest wall.
- Once they reached 43 days old they will stop eating.
- They will start to flap their wings to test and build their flying muscles.
- They love to sing during this stage of their life.
- They will take their first flight on the 45th day (approximate).
9. Sexual maturity:
- Once they can fly, they will escort their parent out but will not fly too far from their nest. Usually on the 45th and 46th days.
- They will return to their nesting house to take a short rest before flying out again.
- They will learn to catch those flying insect around the house but will need to come in and rest after 2-3 hours of flying time.
- They will also learn how navigate to their nest in total darkness during the two days.
- They will only be sexually matured within 5-6 months after their first flight.
- Once matures they will paired with a partner for life
- Every year the female will lay two eggs for three seasons per year.
- They have a life span of about 9 to 12 years.
- If their partner should die there is little chance to breed again.
10. Number of eggs and their characters:
- Each couple will only lay two eggs during every breeding cycle.
- If there are three, one of them must have come from another couple.
- The two eggs will be one female and the other male.
- The egg shapes: one totally tear shape while the other oblong.
- The tear shape egg will generate female baby.
- The oblong shape will generate male baby.
11. Their eggs shapes
- Their biggest weakness is their attraction to swiftlet made sounds.
- Sounds have the ability to make them becoming frenzy and totally out of control.
- In their life system sound have a very high impact on them.
- They usually will sing to each other.
- Young birds will start singing when they reach 40-45 days old.
- If you play the "Duress" bird test sound they will quickly gather above the test gadget and will not move unless you stop the sound.
- The next few days they will still come to the same spot at the same time when the sound was played many days ago.
13. Another weakness:
- They have a very strong sense of smell.
- They use their own feathers to lace their nest for easier identification in total darkness.
- There will be at least two feathers on every raw nests.
- The smell from these feathers will get them to identify which nest belongs to them.
- They are also attracted to their shit smell, their nest smell and some aroma that are made by human.
14. Their special gift:
- Among so many birds species swiftlet have this special gift of echo sounder.
- The echo sounder is similar to sonar system used by bats to fly in total darkness.
- The moment they are subjected to a dark environment they will start to produce those clicking sound.
- The click sound will be shot to the front and when there is any object or walls in front the sound will be reflected to a received.
- This special gift have a very strong reason why they always choose total darkness as their preferred location to start their nest.
- They use this special gift to prevent predators from preving onto their eggs or babies.
15. The effect of external sound:
- When a good external sound is played at entrance hole, they will gather and will usually enter the house.
- Some good sound can turn them into a kind of "FRENZY" state.
- At times they will not take position and fly the whole time inside your BH.
- They also tend to loose interest to any good sound if the sound is being played day in and day out.
- The birds shows unique behaviors to every sounds that your played.
- Some will scare them aways, some will pull them over but never enter and some will make them jump into the entrance hole.
- Beside good sound they also will show some strange behavior if the sound volume is not right.
16. Internal sound effect:
- Internal sound can seduce the young birds to matured much faster.
- At night once the external sound are off the bird will move their location from the external sound playing tweeters to those internal sound playing tweeters.
- Those baby cry sound seem to make the young couples feel safe and comfortable.
- If you use the wrong internal sound most of these birds will either fly away of refuse to start making their nests.
- Remember internal sound will usually make the young birds to quickly mate and populate your BH.
17. The important of morning light:
- While they like to hide or stay in a pitch dark room, they do need light to find their way out of the BH.
- It is very important that during BH design state enough morning light are allowed to enter the BH.
- Those birds needs to fly out as early as possible to find food.
- This is why you need to open one of your entrance hole to face the east.
- If your BH have one entence hole and is facing the west, you will experience something unusual where they will occupy those nesting planks closed to the entry point.
- On the other hand if your BH is too long the birds will choose the right location where they find their way out in the early morning.
- Remember when entering they will be guided by your external sound tweeter's placement but when they flew out they need light.
18. Fooding behaviors:
- If you are observant and smart you can actually predict where these birds will fly to everyday once they leave their nest.
- They will start their food hunting the moment the sun rises. They use the light source to guide them out of the house.
- Their first target will be those low land areas (padi fields, shrub and bushes).
- By 9:00am they will be hovering above those plantation and kampongs slighty higher than those flat lands.
- By 11:00am their preferred hunting ground will be the forest canopies. They will fly to a much higher level once the heat of the sun causes those forest trees flowers to bloom.
- Once the time of the day hit around 4:30pm they will start to come down towards those water sources.
- They will then travel towards their house by above 6:00 - 7:00pm.
- They will be rushing into their home just before total darkness.
- All in all they know the exact locations where they can find the most insect at what times of the day.
19. Select proper time to test:
- By knowing they fooding behavior you can select the best time to see better result during your bird call tests.
- An area near a water pond - 4:30pm.
- A padi field - 8:00am.
- A Kampong - 9:30am.
- A hilly area closed to virgin forest - 11:00pm.
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