Table 4.

The slaughtering performance of the male and female Label Rouge Naked Neck birds fed a diet supplemented with 10% live black soldier fly larvae; supplementation based on the expected daily feed intake (28–81d; n = 12).

Item	Diet (D)		SEM	Gender (G)		SEM	P- value
	BSFL	Control		Male	Female		D	G	D × G
Slaughter weight (g)	2,441	2,423	10.00	2,829	2,035	10.00	0.206	<0.001	0.161
CC yield (%SW)	65.2	64.7	0.28	65.3	64.6	0.28	0.213	0.091	0.193
RTCC yield (%SW)	66.2	65.7	0.30	66.3	65.6	0.30	0.256	0.132	0.183
Breast yield (%CC)	23.2	23.2	0.21	22.2	24.2	0.21	0.815	<0.001	0.894
Thigh yield (%CC)	33.9	34.0	0.20	34.8	33.1	0.20	0.700	<0.001	0.953
Spleen (%SW)	0.16	0.14	0.00	0.14	0.15	0.00	0.002	0.150	1.000
Bursa of Fabricius (%SW)	0.22	0.21	0.01	0.21	0.23	0.01	0.619	0.224	0.020
Liver (%SW)	1.87	1.85	0.04	1.81	1.90	0.04	0.739	0.087	0.975
Heart (%SW)	0.51	0.48	0.01	0.52	0.47	0.01	0.057	0.001	0.771
Abdominal fat (%SW)	1.43	1.60	0.18	1.01	2.02	0.18	0.511	<0.001	0.270

SW, slaughter weight; CC, cold carcass; RTCC, ready to cook carcass; BSFL, black soldier fly larvae; SEM, standard error of the mean.