Nutritional value of a partially defatted and a highly defatted black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) meal for broiler chickens: apparent nutrient digestibility, apparent metabolizable energy and apparent ileal amino acid digestibility

Table 1 Composition (g/kg as fed) of the basal diet

Ingredients
Maize meal	582.9
Soybean meal	350.0
Soybean oil	36.0
Dicalcium phosphate	12.4
Calcium carbonate	11.2
Sodium chloride	2.0
Sodium bicarbonate	1.5
Trace mineral-vitamin premix^a	4.0
Calculated analysis
AME, MJ/kg	12.3
Crude protein	214
Methionine	1.0
Lysine	10.1
Threonine	7.1
Calcium	8.8
Phosphorous	5.8

AME apparent metabolizable energy
^aMineral-vitamin premix (Final B Prisma, IZA SRL), given values are supplied per kg diet: 2,500,000 IU of vitamin A; 1,000,000 IU of vitamin D₃; 7,000 IU of vitamin E; 700 mg of vitamin K; 400 mg of vitamin B₁; 800 mg of vitamin B₂; 400 mg of vitamin B₆; 4 mg of vitamin B₁₂; 30 mg of biotin; 3,111 mg of Ca pantothenate acid; 100 mg of folic acid; 15,000 mg of vitamin C; 5,600 mg of vitamin B3; 10,500 mg of Zn, 10,920 mg of Fe; 9,960 mg of Mn; 3850 mg of Cu; 137 mg of I; 70 mg of Se

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