--- title: "[EN] VIV Europe goes biennial because four years in poultry farming is already an eternity" description: "There are decisions that seem minor or administrative (whether or not to attend a Trade Fair to catch up on all poultry innovation) but that, when well taken, become strategic successes. The poultry..." url: https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/ date: 2025-04-16 modified: 2026-05-03 author: "Federico Castello" image: https://nexusavicultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VIVEurope2022-9.jpg categories: ["Destacados", "EVENTOS", "NOTICIAS DE EMPRESAS"] tags: ["#VIV", "20260417", "avicultura en EUROPA", "english"] type: post lang: es --- # [EN] VIV Europe goes biennial because four years in poultry farming is already an eternity Tabla de Contenidos (#) - (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#There_are_decisions_that_seem_minor_or_administrative_whether_or_not_to_attend_a_Trade_Fair_to_catch_up_on_all_poultry_innovation_but_that_when_well_taken_become_strategic_successes) (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#The_hatchery_is_no_longer_what_it_was) - (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#Farms_with_ever_better_%C2%ABhardware%C2%BB_the_equipment_and_with_an_ever_more_powerful_humanAIdata-platform_combination) - (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#Tailor-made_nutrition_continuous_evaluation_of_management_and_levels_of_automation_and_data_intelligence_never_seen_before) - (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#Why_all_this_matters_now) - (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-goes-biennial-four-years-poultry-farming-eternity-en/#If_you_are_a_poultry_professional_here_is_the_direct_link_to_the_free_registration_form) # There are decisions that seem minor or administrative (whether or not to attend a Trade Fair to catch up on all poultry innovation) but that, when well taken, become strategic successes. *The poultry industry today innovates at an unprecedented speed. At every level: in the hatchery, in sexing, in equipment and management for laying hens or chickens, in transport, in processing plants, in nutrition and precision genomics… Whoever stops for four years arrives late. And VIV Europe knows that.* --- There are decisions that seem minor or administrative (whether or not to attend a unique opportunity to catch up in a few hours on all poultry innovation) but that, when well taken, become strategic successes. When VIV Europe announced in January that it was moving (https://nexusavicultura.com/viv-europe-rompe-su-propio-molde-de-cada-cuatro-anos-a-cada-dos/), many read it as a calendar adjustment. Those who have been in this sector for decades understood it differently: it is the official recognition that **poultry farming can no longer wait four years to look at itself in the mirror**. Because the underlying question is not when the fair takes place. **The question is at what speed technology in poultry production is moving today**. And the answer, for anyone who does not closely follow the technical news of the sector, may be uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable because the time poultry professionals have to attend events is not infinite, but if one does not want to miss any of the news in the sector **nothing better than seeing it «in situ» in what is probably the most innovative country in poultry technology in the world**. **It is moving very fast. Much faster than most people imagine.** --- ## **The hatchery is no longer what it was** Few areas of poultry production better illustrate this acceleration than hatcheries. In less than a decade, control systems have moved from simple temperature and humidity logs to **data intelligence platforms** that manage thousands of variables in real time, predict deviations before they occur and adjust parameters autonomously. This is not conventional automation. It is decision-making delegated to algorithms trained with millions of hatching data points. But the most disruptive leap has come with **in ovo sexing**. What was barely five years ago a laboratory promise is today a technology commercially deployed in several European countries: determining the sex of the embryo between days 9 and 13 of incubation —without opening the egg, in line, at industrial speed— has resolved at the root the ethical and economic debate on the culling of male chicks in laying genetics. Holland, Germany and France are leading the way. And alongside in ovo sexing, the **automatic sexing of the newborn chick** is advancing in parallel, opening up endless new possibilities in meat poultry farming, such as separate-sex rearing and the nutritional optimisation that this entails. Added to this are substantial improvements in the auxiliary equipment of the hatching room: chick vaccination systems that combine precision, speed and minimum animal stress, integrated into process lines that until a few years ago required intensive manual intervention. **The 2026 chick leaves the incubator better vaccinated, better sexed and with more associated data than ever.** ![](https://nexusavicultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VIV-Europe-2022-SelEggT-1024x735.jpg)*At the 2022 edition of VIV EUROPE we were able to confirm the great interest aroused by some innovations such as this in ovo sexing equipment from Seleggt; in the four years since then, these solutions have been deployed in commercial projects that are already fully operational* ## **Farms with ever better «hardware» (the equipment) and with an ever more powerful human+AI+data-platform combination** On the farm, the silent revolution has been underway for years, but it has accelerated notably in the last cycle. **Environmental control** —temperature, humidity, CO₂, air speed, light— is no longer managed with thermostats and reference tables. The most modern systems learn from the behaviour of the flock, adapt to external conditions in real time and anticipate stress situations before the animal expresses them clinically. In layer poultry farming, **aviaries** have reached a level of optimisation that would have seemed like science fiction ten years ago: individual tracking systems for each laid egg, complete internal traceability, automated detection of floor eggs and intelligent space management that maximises welfare without sacrificing productivity. **Biosensors, bioacoustics and real-time monitoring systems** have completed the picture: the veterinarian or the technical manager has on their phone today data that previously took days to compile. Anomalous mortality, deviated water consumption, the movement behaviour of the flock: everything generates alerts before the problem escalates. Preventive medicine in poultry farming has stopped being a concept and has become an interface. ## **Tailor-made nutrition, continuous evaluation of management and levels of automation and data intelligence never seen before. ** Automation, robotics and data analysis in processing plants are giving a **substantial competitive advantage to early-adopter companies**. Every percentage point of efficiency gain counts, and this is transforming entire operations. Lines that a decade ago depended on dozens of operators for cutting up and grading today incorporate artificial vision and robotic arms that operate with a consistency that human muscle cannot match. Upstream, in nutrition, the revolution is just as deep, although less visible. **Precision nutrition** —formulating feeds adjusted to the productive phase, the genotype, the health status and the specific objectives of each batch— is no longer an academic aspiration. It is a practice that the most advanced integrations are incorporating into their daily operations, supported by the growing knowledge of the **intestinal microbiome** as a productive variable of the first order. And at the base of everything, **genomics** has accelerated genetic improvement cycles to make them almost unrecognisable compared to those of a generation ago. Traits that used to take decades to fix in a line are today incorporated in just a few cycles, with a precision that transforms the very concept of what selection means. ![](https://nexusavicultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VIV-EUROPE-2026-se-celebra-en-Utrecht-Holanda-del-2-al-4-junio-2026-1-1024x398.jpg)*The 25th edition of the VIV EUROPE Trade Fair will be held in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht)(The Netherlands) from 2 to 4 June 2026 * ## **Why all this matters now** At the last VIV Europe 2022, four years ago now, when NeXusAvicultura did not even exist but part of its current team did visit, as in previous editions, many of the technologies described in this article existed in development or pilot-test phase. **Today they are commercial products, some already in their second or third generation.** Whoever has not seen in Utrecht what is being presented in June 2026 will have lost a complete update cycle. In a sector that moves at this speed, that delay has a name: **competitive disadvantage**. **VIV Europe 2026 is not just another fair on the world calendar of poultry events. It is the only opportunity in the next two years to see, concentrated in three days and in a single venue, everything that is redefining world poultry production.** Utrecht. 2 to 4 June 2026. The question is not whether you can go. It is whether you can afford not to go. 🔗 (https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/2hszs6azm87v7?utm_source=nexusavicultura) --- To learn more: -. (https://europe.viv.net/es/) trade fair -. International calendar of events:  (https://nexusavicultura.com/calendario/) --- [![](https://nexusavicultura.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/VIV-EUROPE-2026-registration-form-NeXusAvicultura-20260413-4.png)](https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/2hszs6azm87v7?utm_source=nexusavicultura) ## If you are a poultry professional, here is the direct link to the **(https://register.visitcloud.com/survey/2hszs6azm87v7?utm_source=nexusavicultura)**