Contact Information:

pclauer@psu.edu

Phillip J. Clauer
Senior Extension Associate
4-H Youth and Specialty Poultry
Department of Poultry Science
The Pennsylvania State University

Going Further

• Other Experiments

• Wooden Brooder

• Plans for Building an Incubaton (Ohio State University)
• Growing Chick Embryos In Vitro

• Developmental and Physiological Aspects of the Chicken Embryonic Heart Excellent laboratory to teach developmental/physiology students some of the basic principles of vertebrate heart embryology, blood flow, and electrical circuitry, using the chicken embryo as a model system.