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Dietary Inclusion of Crickets (Acheta domesticus) and Yellow Mealworm Meal (Tenebrio molitor) in Comparison with Soybean Meal: Effect on the Growth, Total Tract Apparent Digestibility, and Nitrogen Balance of Fattening Rabbits

VOLEK, Z. ZITA, L. ADÁMKOVÁ, A. ADÁMEK, M. MLČEK, J. PLACHÝ, V.

Originální název

Dietary Inclusion of Crickets (Acheta domesticus) and Yellow Mealworm Meal (Tenebrio molitor) in Comparison with Soybean Meal: Effect on the Growth, Total Tract Apparent Digestibility, and Nitrogen Balance of Fattening Rabbits

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Three diets were formulated, i.e., soybean meal (SM diet), adult Acheta domesticus (AD diet), and Tenebrio molitor larvae (TM diet), as the main crude protein (CP) sources. A total of 45 rabbits (Hyplus, weaned at 32 days of age) were divided into three groups (15 per treatment) and fed one of the three diets for 42 days. A higher daily weight gain (p = 0.042), as well as daily feed intake (p = 0.022), was observed in rabbits fed the AD and TM diets than in rabbits fed the SM diet within 21 days after weaning. The coefficients of total tract apparent digestibility (CTTAD) of gross energy were higher (p = 0.001) in rabbits fed the SM diet than in rabbits fed the other diets. The CTTAD of CP (p = 0.040) and starch (p = 0.041) was higher in rabbits fed the SM diet compared to those fed the AD diet. There were non-significantly higher losses of nitrogen in the urine (an average by 0.227 g/day; p = 0.094) in rabbits fed the TM diet than in rabbits fed the other diets. It can be concluded that the growth of rabbits and nitrogen output were not detrimentally affected by the insect meal (AD or TM) used in this study.

Klíčová slova

rabbit; diet; crude protein; insect meal; digestibility; nitrogen output

Autoři

VOLEK, Z.; ZITA, L.; ADÁMKOVÁ, A.; ADÁMEK, M.; MLČEK, J.; PLACHÝ, V.

Vydáno

14. 5. 2023

Nakladatel

MDPI

Místo

BASEL

ISSN

2076-2615

Periodikum

Animals

Ročník

13

Číslo

10

Stát

Švýcarská konfederace

Strany od

1

Strany do

10

Strany počet

10

URL

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/10/1637

Plný text v Digitální knihovně

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/213636

BibTex

@article{BUT184032,
  author="Zdeněk {Volek} and Lukáš {Zita} and Anna {Adámková} and Martin {Adámek} and Jiří {Mlček} and Vladimír {Plachý}",
  title="Dietary Inclusion of Crickets (Acheta domesticus) and Yellow Mealworm Meal (Tenebrio molitor) in Comparison with Soybean Meal: Effect on the Growth, Total Tract Apparent Digestibility, and Nitrogen Balance of Fattening Rabbits",
  journal="Animals",
  year="2023",
  volume="13",
  number="10",
  pages="1--10",
  doi="10.3390/ani13101637",
  issn="2076-2615",
  url="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/10/1637"
}