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Table 2 Slaughter weight (SW), feed conversion ratio (FCR), ready to cook carcass (RTCC) and organs of an indigenous chicken breed fed a diet supplemented with dehydrated black soldier fly larvae and live black soldier fly larvae over the periods 39–147 and 39–174 days of age (means, n = 6)

From: Black soldier fly larvae: a one health approach to investigate gut, and organ health and meat quality response in slow-growing chickens

 

Diet (D)

Age (A)

SEM

p-value

 

C

DL

LL

147 d

174 d

Diet

Age

D x A

SW (g)

2335b

2440a

2412a

2251

2541

20.60

0.029

< 0.001

0.848

FCR (g/g)

3.51

3.37

3.48

3.24

3.67

0.046

0.114

0.019

0.544

RTCC (SW %)

65.1

65.3

65.2

65.3

65.1

0.433

0.997

0.927

0.539

Spleen (SW %)

0.19

0.19

0.18

0.20

0.19

0.009

0.878

0.200

0.329

Liver (SW %)

1.55

1.56

1.57

1.53

1.59

0.060

0.975

0.354

0.655

  1. C control, DL dehydrated larvae, LL live larvae, DxA interaction diet/age, SEM standard error of mean 
  2. a, b: P<0.05
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