Table 2.

Effect of the dietary HI larva meal inclusion on the growth performance of female ducks (n = 6)

Items	Age	Dietary treatmentsa				SEM	P-value
		HI0	HI3	HI6	HI9		Linear	Quadratic
LW, g	3 d	70.70	70.41	72.65	71.51	0.60	0.405	0.733
	17 d	575.44	567.31	572.56	575.74	4.76	0.893	0.582
	38 d	1906.79	1861.96	1797.10	1900.12	14.18	0.426	0.005
	50 d	2540.57	2511.14	2456.14	2554.84	20.13	0.946	0.123
ADG, g/d	3–17 d	36.05	35.49	35.71	36.02	0.32	0.974	0.529
	18–38 d	63.40	61.65	58.31	63.07	0.69	0.417	0.011
	39–50 d	52.81	54.10	54.92	54.56	1.14	0.582	0.738
	3–50 d	52.55	51.93	50.71	52.84	0.43	0.926	0.125
DFI, g/d	3–17 d	53.69	53.45	52.16	51.85	0.59	0.226	0.979
	18–38 d	142.03	139.06	136.99	139.92	1.28	0.481	0.273
	39–50 d	167.48	170.82	160.32	171.80	2.83	0.924	0.485
	3–50 d	120.58	121.32	117.58	121.48	1.20	0.927	0.530
FCR, g/g	3–17 d	1.49	1.51	1.46	1.44	0.01	0.099	0.489
	18–38 d	2.24	2.26	2.35	2.22	0.03	0.913	0.159
	39–50 d	3.17	3.17	2.93	3.18	0.051	0.639	0.220
	3–50 d	2.29	2.34	2.32	2.30	0.019	0.925	0.406

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

^aFour dietary treatments: HI0 = control; HI3 = 3% inclusion level of Hermetia illucens; HI6 = 6% inclusion level of Hermetia illucens; HI9 = 9% inclusion level of Hermetia illucens