Black Soldier Larvae As An Alternative Protein Source For Wistar Rats

Abstract

This study was conducted to compare the performance of white rats fed on BSFL and fishmeal during a period of four weeks. A total of 24 rats three weeks old were used in the experiment. The fishmeal was replaced with BRCs at 0%(control A) , 25% group B ,50% for group C ,100% for group D in the rats diets. Treatments (A, B, C and D) were randomly distributed into 8 buckets of 6 rats in a treatment each with one replications . Data were analyzed using a two way a nova to compare the means of treatments. At the end of experiment, there was statistical difference in feed intake live weight gain and FCR (p<0.05) among treatments with increasing substitution rates of fishmeal with BSL. Also, the results showed that FCR were not significantly affected by the treatments (p>0.05), with the highest performance in treatment B. the results also also show that palatability was significantly affected by substitution (p<0.05). Therefore BSL may be included to 25% meal in rat feed