. 2021 Sep 17;11(9):2715. doi: 10.3390/ani11092715

Table 3.

Live body weight (LBW), average daily gain (ADG), daily feed intake (DFI) and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) in broiler chickens fed diets with different levels of full-fat Hermetia illucens (HI) larvae meal ¹ (arithmetic mean, SEM, n = 8) ².

Item	Age	Dietary Treatment				SEM	p-Value
Item	Age	HI0	HI50	HI75	HI100	SEM	Group	Linear	Quadratic
LBW, g	1 d	41.12	41.51	42.31	42.32	0.116	0.895	0.128	0.329
	14 d	446.57 ^a	404.41 ^b	389.11 ^b	337.53 ^c	18.11	<0.001	<0.001	0.393
	35 d	2524.10 ^a	2201.03 ^b	1906.06 ^c	1713.04 ^d	24.30	<0.001	<0.001	0.321
	42 d	3046.00 ^a	2727.00 ^b	2504.50 ^b	2378.00 ^c	49.80	<0.001	<0.001	0.143
AGD, g	1—14 d	28.96 ^a	25.92 ^b	24.77 ^b	21.09 ^c	0.072	<0.001	<0.001	0.429
	14—35 d	98.73 ^a	85.50 ^b	72.42 ^c	65.36 ^d	0.096	<0.001	<0.001	0.348
	35—42 d	75.71 ^a	75.72 ^a	84.29 ^b	95.71 ^c	0.082	<0.001	0.035	0.012
DFI, g	1—14 d	37.57 ^a	31.64 ^b	32.07 ^b	31.57 ^b	0.012	<0.001	<0.001	0.293
	14—35 d	144.76 ^a	124.29 ^b	110.19 ^b	101.57 ^c	0.047	<0.001	<0.001	0.168
	35—42 d	177.86 ^a	159.86 ^b	159.14 ^b	142.43 ^c	0.109	<0.001	<0.001	0.354
FCR, kg/kg	1—14 d	1.302 ^a	1.239 ^b	1.300 ^a	1.491 ^c	0.011	0.007	<0.001	<0.001
	14—35 d	1.496 ^a	1.483 ^a	1.550 ^a	1.853 ^b	0.023	0.012	<0.001	0.012
	35—42 d	2.459 ^a	2.195 ^b	1.860 ^c	1.780 ^d	0.072	0.006	<0.001	0.021
	1—42 d	1.629 ^a	1.586 ^a	1.592 ^a	1.768 ^b	0.116	0.009	<0.001	<0.001

¹ Levels of full-fat Hermetia illucens (HI) larvae meal: HI0—0%, HI50—50%, HI75—75%, HI100—100%; ² SEM, standard error of the mean; ^a–d mean values within a row (dietary treatment) not followed by a common superscript are significantly different at p < 0.05.