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ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages 211-218Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2015.08.006
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Insect larval meal; Amino acid; Metabolizable energy; Apparent digestibility; Broiler chicken
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- University of Torino
- Regione Piemonte, Italy (PSR-PIAS) [08000558869]
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The aim of this study was to determine the apparent digestibility coefficients of the total tract (CTTAD) of nutrients and the apparent metabolizable energy (AME and AMEn) of two insect larval meals (Tenebrio molitor and Hermetia illucens) for broiler chickens. The amino acid (AA) apparent Heal digestibility coefficients (AIDC) was also determined. The experimental diets were: a basal diet and two diets prepared by substituting 250 g/kg (w/w) of the basal diet with Tenebrio molitor meal (TM) or Hermetia illucens meal (HI). No statistical difference was found between the two insect larval meals for the MAD of the nutrients, except for the CTTAD for ether extract (P < 0.001) where the HI meal proved to be more digestible than the TM meal (0.99 and 0.88, respectively). The MAD for DM was 0.60 and 0.53; 0.66 and 0.66 for OM; 0.60 and 0.51 for CP, whereas it was 0.64 and 0.69 for GE, for TM and HI, respectively. No difference was observed between TM and HI (P > 0.05) for AME or AMEn (AME = 16.86 and 17.38 MJ/kg DM, respectively; AMEn = 16.02 and 16.60 MJ/kg DM, respectively). The average AIDC of the 17 analyzed AAs was higher (P < 0.001) in TM than in HI (0.86 and 0.68, respectively) because the AIDC of isoluecine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, valine, alanine, aspartic acid, glycine, glutamic acid and tyrosine was higher (P < 0.05) in TM than in HI. Overall, the present results have shown that TM and HI meals are excellent sources of AME for broilers and a valuable source of digestible AA, particularly as far as TM meal is concerned. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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