Vol. 9, Issue 3, Part B (2024)

Author(s): Dakshith PL, HC Indresh, TN Krishnamurthy and Dharanesha NK

Abstract: Increasing world population has led to a very high demand of food and feed resources. Livestock forms a very large part of India and poultry forms a very large part of livestock industry. Poultry feed industry today is facing challenges such as limited availability of raw materials to be used in poultry feed. This study was conducted to study the effect of black soldier fly larvae meal, a potential protein source on gut microbial load and gut morphology in broilers. Four treatment groups T₁, T₂, T₃ and T₄ with three replicates each containing ten birds were made and T₁, T₂, T₃ and T₄ were fed with control diet, diet with 5% black soldier fly larvae meal, 10% black soldier fly larvae meal and 15% black soldier fly larvae meal, respectively. At the end of the experiment studies revealed that feeding of black soldier fly larvae meal had no significant effect on gut microbial load and gut morphology in broilers.