Raising bird's nest in the house: The profession of

In the past week of January, when more than 90% of the sixth bird's nest eggs were hatched with the ratio of offspring (flying) up to 30%, the director of Yen Viet Vo Thai Lam Co., Ltd. boldly affirmed. : with the territorial conditions of Ninh Thuan, it is perfectly suitable for bird nest to migrate and settle. And if properly invested, commercial bird breeding in Ninh Thuan will be a 'unique' profession of the whole country.

Good land . perched birds

Bird's nest hatched for more than a month ( Photo: TTO ) Mr. Vo Thai Lam - Director of Yen Viet Company - told after reading information on Tuoi Tre about the appearance of bird nest more than 100 in the campus. Dance troupe Ninh Thuan is right in the center of Phan Rang town (Tuoi Tre 25-3-2004), the idea of ​​bird nest farming in the house began to rekindle in him.

In order to have a basis for implementing this idea, in early 2005, this 'bear-play' director and a partner of the company had self-financed to attend a training course on bird nest breeding techniques in Indonesia; At the same time, visit the bird nest village of Par Panang (Thailand) to learn about this model of breeding precious birds.

In April 2005, Mr. Lam strongly proposed and was approved by the Provincial People's Committee to implement the project to protect and develop natural bird nest at the house of 592 Thong Nhat. Yen Viet Company was officially established.

The results of the classification of the Paris Institute of Science and Technology (France) show that bird nest is residing in the town of Phan Rang (Ninh Thuan) belonging to Aerodramus species, A.fuciphagus species. According to the study of biochemist Nguyen Khoa Dieu Thu, this species has an average length of 12cm, weight 12-20 grams, dark brown body.

In Vietnam, A.fuciphagus is often found in islands in some provinces such as Khanh Hoa, Da Nang, Binh Dinh, Kien Giang . And so, the migration of this species to Phan Rang is a phenomenon. strange.

Prospects for a new profession

The house of 592 Thong Nhat was renovated in the direction of . attracting birds: the whole ventilation hole, the window was sealed with only a large gap in the sky to allow the bird to enter, the walls were repaired to increase sound insulation, beam water jet system installed in many locations in the house continuously operating . Mr. Lam explained: the bird nest is very uncomfortable.

Want to keep them to create a suitable space for darkness, temperature (about 280C), humidity 95% and especially to avoid noise .

According to the torchlight, very interesting, we saw hundreds of nesting birds nesting in shape throughout the ceiling and walls and dense bird nest.

Mr. Lam said to avoid the birds being shocked, at the end of the year, the company decided to buy the house next door (No. 594) and continue to renovate the direction of building the nest to lead the bird. And suddenly, just over a month later, about 100 children have automatically separated the flock to live in the new nest. ' Now the bird nest of the company has grown to more than 2,000 children ' - Mr. Lam said.

Last October, Yen Viet Company decided to carry out a bold job: incubating bird nest eggs by artificial methods. ' Making eggs hatch is not difficult, the most difficult is the raising of chicks so that they can come out (integrate with the herd to fly for food) after 45 days ' - Mr. Lam said.

After five consecutive failures (the percentage of young birds live only 1-2%), at the beginning of January, the sixth hamlet gave an unexpected result: 90% of the eggs hatched with the ratio of offspring (know fly) up to 30%.

Yen Viet Company is proposing to the Provincial People's Committee to organize a scientific workshop to replicate the model of domestic bird breeding in the direction of trade. ' We are ready to share our experiences with people in the province with the goal of building a' unique bird breeding village 'of the whole country in the near future ' - Mr. Lam said.

L. SCHOOL