Symposium: avian embryo nutrition and incubation.

The embryonic period represents approximately 33 percent of the total productive life of modern broilers and is very important for attaining quality broiler performance at marketing. In this symposium, recent developments in pre-hatch broiler development were discussed with special focus on maternal nutrition, in ovo nutrition, and the regulation and monitoring of the incubational environment. The symposium was concluded with discussion about the implementation of future innovations in incubation technology.