Black soldier fly defatted meal as a dietary protein source for broiler chickens: Effects on growth performance, blood traits, gut morphology and histological features

Table 2 Effect of the dietary HI larva meal inclusion level on the growth performances of the broiler chickens (n = 8)

Items	Age	Dietary treatments				SEM	P-value
Items	Age	HI0	HI5	HI10	HI15	SEM	Linear	Quadratic
LW, g	1 d	40.23	40.20	40.33	40.23	0.020	0.443	0.363
	10 d	262.19	259.22	285.23	267.89	2.349	0.005	0.030
	24 d	1194.91	1199.45	1227.89	1095.23	10.157	< 0.001	< 0.001
	35 d	2269.25	2264.11	2278.95	2072.15	18.173	< 0.001	< 0.001
ADG, g	1–10 d	22.20	21.90	24.49	22.77	0.234	0.005	0.031
	10–24 d	66.62	67.16	67.33	59.10	0.716	< 0.001	< 0.001
	24-35d	97.67	96.79	95.55	88.81	1.187	0.007	0.179
DFI, g	1–10 d	25.89	25.64	28.52	26.54	0.279	0.012	0.040
	10–24 d	97.50	96.69	98.70	95.23	0.572	0.340	0.238
	24–35 d	176.42	174.62	174.27	171.73	0.988	0.115	0.852
FCR, g/g	1–10 d	1.17	1.17	1.16	1.17	0.005	0.866	0.900
	10–24 d	1.46	1.44	1.47	1.61	0.016	< 0.001	0.001
	24–35 d	1.81	1.81	1.83	1.93	0.018	0.011	0.136
	1–35 d	1.60	1.59	1.60	1.72	0.012	< 0.001	< 0.001

HI Hermetia illucens, SEM standard error of the mean, LW live weight, ADG Average daily gain, DFI daily feed intake, FCR feed convertion ratio

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