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Table 3 Concentrations of nutrients and energy in the broiler diets

From: Effect of replacement of soybean oil by Hermetia illucens fat on performance, digestibility, cecal microbiome, liver transcriptome and liver and plasma lipidomes of broilers

Item

Starter diets

Grower diets

Finisher diets

 

HI-0

HI-2.5

HI-5.0

HI-0

HI-2.5

HI-5.0

HI-0

HI-2.5

HI-5.0

Analyzed crude nutrient content

 Dry matter, % FM

87.5

87.5

87.4

87.6

87.3

87.7

87.5

87.4

88.1

 Crude protein, % DM

21.6

21.6

21.6

19.8

20.0

20.0

19.1

19.0

19.3

 Ether extract, % DM

7.3

7.1

7.2

7.6

7.4

7.4

7.6

7.4

7.2

 Crude ash, % DM

5.6

5.9

5.9

5.5

5.5

5.6

5.5

5.4

5.5

 Crude fiber, % DM

3.5

3.6

3.5

3.9

3.9

3.9

4.2

4.3

4.0

 Sugar, % DM

3.3

3.0

2.7

3.8

3.0

2.7

2.9

3.0

3.4

 Starch, % DM

35.7

35.9

35.5

37.2

36.4

37.7

36.4

38.6

38.3

 AMEN#, MJ/kg DM

12.2

12.2

12.1

12.4

12.1

12.3

12.0

12.3

12.3

Fatty acidsa, % of total fatty acids

 C10:0

-

0.41

0.82

-

0.46

0.81

-

0.44

0.80

 C12:0

0.42

18.23

37.65

0.22

19.06

38.09

0.50

19.06

38.03

 C14:0

0.18

2.93

5.89

0.15

3.09

5.97

0.20

3.08

6.05

 C16:0

11.82

11.88

12.17

11.44

12.06

12.19

11.59

12.12

12.26

 C16:1

0.22

1.00

1.90

0.16

1.02

1.92

0.16

1.07

1.92

 C18:0

3.99

3.10

1.85

3.98

3.09

1.86

3.89

3.09

1.87

 C18:1

24.00

19.44

12.42

25.57

18.65

12.60

25.00

19.00

12.56

 C18:2 n-6

51.32

37.73

22.94

50.88

36.83

23.13

50.93

37.26

23.02

 C18:3 n-3

5.66

3.74

1.65

5.48

3.55

1.64

5.55

3.56

1.62

 C20:0

0.51

0.38

0.28

0.46

0.37

0.28

0.45

0.34

0.28

  1. Abbreviations: AMEN Apparent N-corrected metabolizable energy, DM Dry matter, FM Fresh matter
  2. aOnly fatty acids > 0.5% of total fatty acids are shown. #The AMEN content of the feed was calculated according to the formula of the World´s Poultry Science Association for poultry compound feed