Table 4.

Growth performance of Muscovy ducks fed BSF and YM live larvae provided at 5% of the expected ADFI

Item	Age	Dietary treatmenta			SEM	P-value
		C	BSF	YM
LW, g	3 d	80.7	79.9	80.4	0.599	0.890
	31 d	1,257	1,257	1,247	8.76	0.886
	55 d	2,589	2,634	2,607	11.6	0.297
ADG, g/d	3–31 d	42.0	42.0	41.7	0.301	0.876
	31–55 d	55.5	57.4	56.6	0.574	0.423
	3–55 d	48.2	49.1	48.6	0.226	0.294
ADFI (g/d) + larvae	3–31 d	81.2	79.5 + 4.54	77.2 + 4.54	0.981	0.262
	31–55 d	176	182 + 8.15	181 + 8.15	2.09	0.506
	3–55 d	125	126 + 6.21	124 + 6.21	1.20	0.772
FCR (g/g, DM basis) + larvae	3–31 d	1.76	1.75	1.72	0.025	0.859
	31–55 d	2.86	2.89	2.89	0.041	0.962
	3–55 d	2.34	2.37	2.34	0.029	0.928

C Control, BSF Black soldier fly, YM Yellow mealworm, SEM Standard error of the mean, LW Live weight, ADG Average daily gain, ADFI Average daily feed intake (as fed), FCR Feed conversion ratio (on a dry matter basis, including the larvae intake), DM Dry matter

^aThree dietary treatments: C: control, commercial feed; BSF: commercial feed + 5% live BSF larvae; YM: commercial feed + 5% live YM larvae