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The chicks are now 30 days old and have opened their eyes.  Time for some imprinting to prevent them from joining some wild flock in a couple of weeks time when they start to fly. Part of our second batch of about 30 chicks.  We have fine-tuned the brooding temperature, food and other variables for the hatchlings.  This second batch looks like heading for a 90% survival rate. The industry standard is 30 to 50%. 

Building up the critical  mass naturally takes time.  We decided to speed things up a little by incubating eggs and acclimatising them to the micro-climate at our farm from hatchlings. Eggs dated and where there are pin holes and fissures due to mishandling, nail polish is applied.           Hatching out in a mere 16 days,  not 20 + days as recorded in most books. Almost...

On 30th Oct we switched on the sounds on a permanent basis.  Today, we noticed the droppings of at least 10 pairs of newly weds.  This must surely break all records for the time it takes for...

Today we had our first trial run calling the walit.           Completed walit house.        We switched on the 'bazooka' tweeter for the first time. It's that...

The swiftlets of the species, Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus produce edible nests called the caviar of the East, primarily because of the high price. The swiftlets come down...