• Comprehensively addresses the major challenges facing broiler production, including antibiotic resistance and environmental impact
• Considers the role of environmental and genetic factors on healthy broiler chick development
• Reviews the range of precision farming technologies used to monitor broiler health and welfare

Dr Henry van den Brand is an Associate Professor of the Adaptation Physiology Group at Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands. His research is mainly focused on the early life of poultry, with special interest in incubation, early nutrition and thermoregulation. The aim of his research is to improve or maintain poultry health, welfare and resilience. Dr Van den Brand is also a contributor of our previously published title Embryo development and hatchery practice in poultry production (published in 2023).