Suitability of Hermetia illucens larvae meal and fat in broiler diets: effects on animal performance, apparent ileal digestibility, gut histology, and microbial metabolites

Table 5 Apparent ileal digestibility of broilers fed with HI larvae meal and fat

Items, %	Protein × Fat						SE	P-value	Protein (LSMean)		SE	P-value	Fat (LSMean)			SE	P-value
Items, %	S + 0 L	S + 50 L	S + 100 L	L + 0 L	L + 50 L	L + 100 L	SE	P-value	S	L	SE	P-value	0 L	50 L	100 L	SE	P-value
Dry matter	63.5	63.9	63.6	66.4	67.8	66.0	1.63	0.611	63.6	66.7	0.57	< 0.001	64.9	65.8	64.8	0.692	0.347
Organic matter	67.9	68.3	68.1	70.3	71.8	70.1	1.01	0.543	68.1	70.7	0.63	< 0.001	69.1	70.0	69.1	0.721	0.285
Crude protein	73.1	73.2	73.8	71.4	72.4	74.8	1.18	0.350	73.4	72.8	0.67	0.488	72.3^v	72.8^uv	74.3^u	0.799	0.081
Fat	88.7	85.7^y	88.7	88.7	92.1^z	91.0	2.26	0.084	87.7	90.6	1.48	0.022	88.7	88.9	89.9	1.649	0.712

S, soybean meal; L; 15% of SBM crude protein substituted with HI larvae meal CP; S + 0 L, SBM + 0HI larvae fat; S + 50 L, SBM + 50% HI larvae fat; S + 100 L, SBM+ 100% HI larvae fat; L + 0 L, HI larvae meal+ 0HI larvae fat; L + 50 L, HI larvae meal+ 50% HI larvae fat; L + 100 L, HI larvae meal+ 100% HI larvae fat
^y,z Protein sources at the same HI larvae fat (50, 100%) level differ by trend (0.05 ≤ p ≤ 0.10) if having different superscripts
^u,v indicate differences by trend (0.05 ≤ P ≤ 0.10) for the main effect of fat source
SE Standard error

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