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

Table 4 Effect of dietary BSFL full-fat meal and probiotic mixture to replace antibiotics on the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) in weaning pigs on day 28^1,2

Item	Dietary treatment				Normality	Homogeneity of error variance
Item	PC	P - value	BSFL12	BSFL+ Pro	P - value	P - value	SEM	P - value
Dry matter	88.20^ab	83.65^b	90.82^a	90.32^a	0.078	0.220	1.642	0.047
Crude protein	83.57^ab	77.39^b	87.51^a	86.72^a	0.274	0.131	1.995	0.022
Crude ash	53.06	52.56	61.52	62.97	0.010	0.053	7.865	0.753
Ether extract	67.89^ab	57.64^b	79.32^a	75.06^a	0.174	0.189	3.987	0.019

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
²Values shows means of five replicates (pen) per treatment
^a,bValues within a row not sharing common lowercase superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)

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