Poultry Education and Research Center

Dedicated on May 19, 1994, the new Poultry Education and Research Center replaced the old research farm that was built in the 1930s and expanded in the 1950s.

The new $6 million center consists of six separate buildings occupying about 50,000 square feet.

Research Building (P-1)

• Conference/classroom, environmental chambers, hatchery, feed mixing area, battery rooms, surgical suite, laboratory, student housing, and office

• Four wings with 24 research pens each, and laboratory

• Ten floor/battery rooms, large pullet cage rearing room, feed mixing and storage area, and laboratory

• Six floor/battery rooms, cage layer room (capacity 3,000 hens), egg storage area, egg analysis and processing center and laboratory, and 24 floor pens for market turkeys

• Large cage room for male and female breeders, observational floor pens, egg cooler, and records laboratory

• Slaughter and evisceration rooms, walk-in cooler and freezer, laboratory, shop, and garage.The center has its own diesel-powered electrical generator for emergencies.

The Department of Poultry Science has offices and laboratories in the Wm. L. Henning Building, on Penn State's Main Campus at University Park, Pa.

Dirk Wise is the manager of the PERC.