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

Table 5.

Carcass yield and percentage share of muscles, selected internal organs and abdominal fat (% of BW ¹) in broiler chickens fed diets with different levels of full-fat Hermetia illucens (HI) ² larvae meal (%, arithmetic mean, SEM ³; values on d 42, n = 16).

Item	Dietary Treatment				SEM	p-Value
Item	HI0	HI50	HI75	HI100	SEM	Group	Linear	Quadratic
Percentage of BW ¹ (%)
Carcass yield	74.39 ^a	73.12 ^b	68.36 ^c	70.65 ^d	0.42	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Breast muscles	23.84 ^a	20.28 ^b	17.77 ^c	18.01 ^c	0.47	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Leg muscles	16.92 ^a	16.62 ^a	15.38 ^b	16.24 ^ab	0.16	0.043	0.012	0.046
⁴ Muscles	40.75 ^a	36.90 ^b	33.15 ^c	34.24 ^c	0.52	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Liver	1.74 ^a	1.86 ^a	2.32 ^b	2.29 ^b	0.04	<0.001	<0.001	0.010
HeartD	0.46 ^a	0.48 ^a	0.52 ^ab	0.56 ^b	0.01	0.024	0.003	0.593
Gizzard	0.71 ^a	0.82 ^ab	0.96 ^bc	1.00 ^c	0.03	<0.001	<0.001	0.495
Abdominal fat	0.62 ^a	1.16 ^b	1.54 ^bc	1.77 ^c	0.09	<0.001	<0.001	0.244

¹ BW, body weight; average body weight of birds selected for slaughter; ² levels of full-fat Hermetia illucens (HI) larvae meal: HI0—0%, HI50—50%, HI75—75%, HI100—100%; ³ SEM, standard error of the mean; ⁴ muscles (combined leg and breast muscles); ^a–d mean values within a row (dietary treatment) not followed by a common superscript are significantly different at p < 0.05.