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 9 Effect of dietary BSFL full-fat meal and probiotic mixture to replace antibiotics on the microbial count (log colony-forming unit [CFU]/g faeces) in weaning pigs^1,2

Item	Black soldier fly larva (%)				Normality	Homogeneity of error variance
Item	PC	NC	BSFL12	BSFL+ Pro	P - value	P-value	SEM	P - value
Lactobacillus spp.	7.45^bc	5.84^c	8.71^ab	9.63^a	0.316	0.071	0.652	0.008
Escherichia coli	6.08^b	8.61^a	6.92^ab	5.72^b	0.585	0.093	0.592	0.021
Salmonella spp.	5.58	7.23	6.51	5.97	0.476	0.095	0.564	0.239

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
²Data are shown as group mean ± standard error of mean (SEM) (n = 5 per treatment)
^a-cValues within a row not sharing common lowercase superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)

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