Nutritional Evaluation of Housefly Larvae Meal in Broilers: Growth Performance, Gut Health, Metabolic Energy, and Microbiota Composition.

ABSTRACT: Poultry production faces considerable challenges in terms of feed costs and sustainability, particularly regarding conventional protein sources such as fish meal (FM). Insect-based proteins, such as housefly larvae (HL) meal, offer sustainable alternatives. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of HL on growth, gut health, metabolizable energy, and gut microbiota of broilers to clarify the availability of HL meal for broiler diet. Experiment 1 was performed to investigate the effects of replacing FM with HL on growth performance, intestinal morphology, cecal short-chain fatty acids, and gut microbiota composition and diversity in male broilers. Experiment 2 was performed to assess the digestibility of broiler diets containing HL. HL addition effectively maintained growth a

SUBMITTER: Kawasaki K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12897196 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature