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 7 Effect of dietary BSFL full-fat meal and probiotic mixture to replace antibiotic on digesta pH in weaning pigs^a,b

Item	Dietary treatment				Normality	Homogeneity of error variance
Item	PC	NC	BSFL12	BSFL+ Pro	P - value	P-value	SEM	P - value
Cecum	4.51	6.29	5.08	4.23	0.018	0.086	0.420	0.069
Proximal colon	5.87	5.26	5.48	5.31	0.627	0.095	0.344	0.605
Middle colon	5.39	4.97	5.44	5.32	0.018	0.001	0.454	0.854
Distal colon	4.87	5.62	4.76	4.27	0.151	0.001	0.458	0.516

^aAbbreviations: 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
^bData are shown as group mean ± standard error of mean (SEM) (n = 5 per treatment)

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