Nutritional effects of the dietary inclusion of partially defatted Hermetia illucens larva meal in Muscovy duck.

Marta GariglioSihem DabbouIlaria BiasatoMaria Teresa CapucchioElena ColombinoFuensanta HernándezJosefa MadridSilvia MartínezFrancesco GaiChristian CaimiSara Bellezza OddonMarco MeneguzAngela TrocinoRiccardo VincenziLaura GascoAchille Schiavone

Published in: Journal of animal science and biotechnology (2019)

The inclusion of up to 9% of HI partially defatted larva meal in the diet of ducks did not cause any effect on growth performance, as well as the apparent digestibility. Moreover, dietary HI inclusion preserved the physiological intestinal development.

Keyphrases

physical activity
weight loss
magnetic resonance
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
diffusion weighted imaging