After decades of service in the teaching profession, my father retired and started a small-scale poultry business. He constructed the chicken houses himself without much help from others, except a little from us, his young sons. He used mostly bamboo for the structure. I remember him sourcing bamboo from groves in a barrio a couple of kilometers away, choosing and cutting them down himself. Dad used the largest part of the bamboo, about 5-6 inches in diameter, for posts. The