Let Your Imagination Takes Flight

Another article posted by Mr. Fr. Thanks

Swiftlet farmers should try to imagine themselves to be swiftlets, escape from the pull of gravity and being able to soar into the sky; flying over towns, oil palm plantations, paddy fields or all over the sea shores. Then try to imagine flying over their bird houses and later proceed to enter into the premise, into the roving room and then into the nesting rooms; while circling inside the premises, just try to visualize whether the interior is suitable for swiftlets to navigate easily and safely.

The saying goes that it takes a thief to catch a thief; for a thief best knows the ways of thieves and can therefore anticipate the actions of a thief. Therefore, swiftlet farmers must try to learn as much about the ways and behaviors of swiftlets in order that they can best design a premise that caters to the comfort and well-beings of swiftlets so that they will opt to stay and make nests and lay eggs to raise their off-springs.

In Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel-Captain Courageous, he told a story of a master fisherman-Disko Troop, who sailed the rich fishing grounds of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland trying to catch cod fishes:

“Disko Troop stared forward, the pipe between his teeth, with eyes that saw nothing. As his son said, he was studying the fish-pitting his knowledge and experience on the Banks against the roving cod in his own sea. He accepted the presence of the inquisitives schooners on the horizon as a compliment to his powers. But now that it was paid, he wished to draw away and make his berth alone, till it was time to go up to The Virgin and fish in the streets of that roaring town upon the waters. So Disko Troop thought of recent whether, and gales, currents, food supplies, and other domestic arrangements, from the point of view of a twenty-pound cod; was, in fact, for an hour, a cod himself, and looked remarkably like one.”

So to succeed in swiftlet farming, it pays to give your imagination a free rein and think like a swiftlet. To imagine yourself to be a swiftlet and visualize from a bird eye view of flying over your farm and also into your farm…