Viewing and accessing the chicken embryo during development can be challenging. We have developed an ex ovo method that is simple, cost effective, and can easily be used in a classroom or research setting. This method provides access to the embryo into late stages of embryonic development (HH 40).
Cloney, K., Franz-Odendaal, T. A. Optimized Ex-ovo Culturing of Chick Embryos to Advanced Stages of Development. J. Vis. Exp. (95), e52129, doi:10.3791/52129 (2015).