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Learning in Action

Playing Peek-a-boo with Embryos 2

• 4-H Hatching Classroom Projects: pages 22-23
• Candle eggs as directed
• Discuss what has changed from day 3 to day 6

Words of the Day

• Abdomen: part of the embryo’s body located between the throat and the pelvis.
• Bacteria: microscopic, single-celled organisms.
• Digits: division of limbs that appear on the wings and feet during development.
• Mortality: the death of the embryo. This can occur anytime throughout development.
• Sanitation: maintaining a clean environment through the cleansing of equipment and the use of proper hand-washing.
• Proventriculus: the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
• Gizzard: the muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal of birds; it usually has thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for churning and grinding food.