From agricultural waste to chicken feed using insect-based technology

The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

Table 5 Average weekly body weight, body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio of broilers fed insect-based diets and a control diet

Period (week)	Body weight gain (g)		Feed intake (g)		Feed conversion ratio
Period (week)	BSF-based diet	Control diet	BSF-based diet	Control diet	BSF-based diet	Control diet
1	99.53 ± 08.00_a	99.84 ± 13.72_a	332.61 ± 41.99_a	321.62 ± 3.18_a	2.35 ± 0.29_a	2.28 ± 0.22_a
2	203.33 ± 10.68_a	180.41 ± 44.12_a	370.89 ± 63.02_a	389.00 ± 69.83_a	1.07 ± 0.16_a	1.22 ± 0.28_a
3	247.05 ± 22.40_b	284.66 ± 23.75_ab	454.05 ± 41.42_b	549.33 ± 24.10_a	0.76 ± 0.09_a	0.90 ± 0.07_a
4	259.38 ± 06.96_a	294.33 ± 19.19_a	708.44 ± 36.68_a	719.50 ± 43.31_a	0.83 ± 0.03_a	0.79 ± 0.03_a
5	476.86 ± 28.92_b	437.93 ± 25.15_b	918.33 ± 38.83_a	999.95 ± 58.35_a	0.69 ± 0.03_ab	0.74 ± 0.03_a
6	539.59 ± 09.54_b	503.60 ± 10.81_b	1245.54 ± 42.16_a	1323.13 ± 39.97_a	0.66 ± 0.03_ab	0.71 ± 0.02_a

Means (± SE) are based on three replications and values followed by different lowercase letter are significantly different among treatments (P < 0.05)