Table 6.

Nitrogen balance of full fat (FF diet) and defatted (DF diet) black soldier fly larvae meal diets (n = 8) fed to growing pigs (Exp. 2)

	Treatment
Item	FF diet1	DF diet2	SEM3	P-value
Nitrogen balance
N intake, g/d	31.8	28.0	2.39	0.119
N output in feces, g/d	6.5	5.8	0.50	0.436
N excretion in urine, g/d	7.6	8.6	1.57	0.466
N retained, %	56.1	48.2	3.73	0.166
N retained, g/d4	18.2	13.1	1.56	0.280
N digestibility, %5	80.1	78.7	1.40	0.602

¹Full fat BSFLM obtained from Oreka Solutions (Markham, ON, Canada).

²Defatted BSFLM obtained from Enterra Feed Corporation (Langley, BC, Canada).

³Maximum value of SEM.

⁴N retained (g/d) = N intake (g/d) − N output in feces (g/d) − N output in urine (g/d).

⁵N digestibility (%) = 100 − (100 × ((Diet Ti (mg/kg) × N output fecal (%))/(Sample Ti (mg/kg) × Diet N (%)))).