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Table 3 Effect of dietary BSFL full-fat meal and probiotic mixture to replace antibiotics on growth performance and diarrhoeal rate in weaning pigs1,2

From: Dietary supplementation with full-fat Hermetia illucens larvae and multi-probiotics, as a substitute for antibiotics, improves the growth performance, gut health, and antioxidative capacity of weaned pigs

 

Item

Dietary treatment

Normality

Homogeneity of error variance

  

PC

NC

BSFL12

BSFL+ Pro

P - value

P - value

SEM

P - value

D0–14

BW d0 (kg)

7.32

7.36

7.35

7.34

0.839

0.025

0.208

0.782

BW d15 (kg)

10.46

9.97

10.32

10.78

0.090

0.038

0.236

0.095

ADG (g)

224.68

186.57

212.28

245.86

0.380

0.121

13.563

0.056

ADFI (g)

389

392

387

403

0.216

0.109

11.742

0.788

G:F

0.581

0.476

0.550

0.613

0.273

0.310

0.039

0.137

D15–28

BW d29 (kg)

17.43

16.06

16.92

17.87

0.784

0.010

0.297

0.077

ADG (g)

497.68

434.78

471.96

506.36

0.421

0.114

26.512

0.272

ADFI (g)

694

676

681

670

0.015

0.022

7.676

0.156

G:F

0.718

0.644

0.692

0.736

0.733

0.099

0.041

0.443

d0–28

ADG (g)

361.18a

310.68b

341.82ab

376.11a

0.592

0.087

11.996

0.013

ADFI (g)

541

534

534

546

0.430

0.004

5.604

0.374

G:F

0.668a

0.582b

0.641ab

0.688a

0.620

0.175

0.023

0.032

Diarrhoea rate (%)3

5.42

12.58

6.83

4.28

0.031

0.031

1.968

0.323

  1. 1Abbreviations: PC basal diet with amoxicillin 0.02%, NC basal diet without addition, BSFL12 basal diet plus 12% black solder fly larva full-fat meal, BSFL + Pro basal diet plus 12% black solder fly larva full-fat meal and 0.1% multi-probiotics, BW body weight, ADG average daily gain, ADFI average daily feed intake, and G:F gain-to-feed ratio
  2. 2Values shows means of five replicates (pen) per treatment
  3. 3Data present the average value from days 1 to 28 a,bValues within a row not sharing common lowercase superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)