Table 3.
Effect of dietary oil sources on growth performance in broiler chickens (1–30 D)1.
| Item | Experimental diets2 |
SEM | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corn oil | Coconut oil | BSFL oil | |||
| Initial body weight (g/bird) | 45.68 | 45.66 | 45.69 | 0.13 | 0.989 |
| Body weight at 15 D (g/bird) | 417.28 | 418.71 | 417.53 | 6.14 | 0.985 |
| Body weight at 30 D (g/bird) | 1,383.87 | 1,479.23 | 1,453.79 | 32.94 | 0.125 |
| Body weight gain (g/day/bird) | 45.43 | 48.05 | 48.11 | 1.14 | 0.183 |
| Feed intake (g/day/bird) | 71.70 | 69.93 | 71.31 | 1.42 | 0.655 |
| Feed conversion ratio (g:g) | 1.58a | 1.46b | 1.49b | 0.03 | 0.021 |
a-bMeans without a common superscript letter differ (P < 0.05).
Abbreviations: BSFL, black soldier fly larvae; SEM, standard error of the means.
1
All means are average of 10 replicates per treatment.
2
Experimental diets were produced by adding oils (i.e., corn oil, coconut oil, and black soldier fly larvae oil) into a base diet to reach 50 g/kg of diet.