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"swiftlet farming" is defined as a production system of edible birds' nest by preparing specially designed buildings imitating the cave-like environment for the swiftlets to roost and nest; harvesting of nests at the appropriate season does not affect the species from reproduction. To experienced swifltet farmers, your comments and suggestions would be much appreciated. To newbies, I hope this blog help you in your quest for more information and knowledge.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Insects in menus - Of course they are not free


We have been enjoying free flow of insects for swiftlets as source of food but I believe, it won't be for long we have to pay for continued supply of insects to our swiftlets when we have not got enough of insects in the area for our swiftlets to feed on. To keep the bird population growing, we need to supply our swiftlets with insects near our farms and insects breeding system will become a neccessity in swiftlet farming. The insects breeding system, I believe, revolves around ingredients for breeding insects, equipments used for breeding and feeding and methodology of both breeding and feeding practices. Studies should be carried out to identify the good and bad insects, determine the diets of swiftlets and their effects on the nests we harvested. We should not compromise the original nutritional value of the nests for the benefits of having more bird population.

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