Table 7.

Effects of the dietary treatments on the slaughtering performance of broilers on day 21

Items2	Dietary treatments1				P-value
	Control	BSFL	4% DL	8% DL
Carcass weight, g	695.62 ± 27.87c	671.54 ± 21.13c	788.40 ± 26.55b	919.98 ± 17.35a	<0.001
Dressing, %	90.81 ± 1.33	91.54 ± 2.73	92.46 ± 1.16	93.66 ± 0.52	0.073
Breast, %	19.73 ± 1.67	21.10 ± 2.18	21.41 ± 1.37	21.98 ± 1.75	0.261
Thigh, %	16.89 ± 1.81	18.52 ± 1.83	18.06 ± 1.49	18.51 ± 0.88	0.335
Liver, %	2.46 ± 0.41	2.89 ± 0.50	3.11 ± 0.85	2.57 ± 0.18	0.257
Heart, %	0.86 ± 0.18	0.86 ± 0.12	0.93 ± 0.11	0.86 ± 0.03	0.707
Kidney, %	0.25 ± 0.04	0.26 ± 0.09	0.36 ± 0.04	0.30 ± 0.08	0.089
Intestine, %	3.92 ± 0.54ab	3.86 ± 0.41ab	4.16 ± 0.80a	3.04 ± 0.35b	<0.05

¹BSFL, 4% DL, and 8% DL represent the treatment diets containing 4% black soldier fly larvae meal, 4% and 8% Drosophila larvae meal (days 1–21), respectively.

²Intestine, sum of duodenum, jejunum, ileum. and cecum.

^a–cMeans that rows not sharing the same superscript letter are statistically different (P < 0.05). Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 5).