Evaluation on Nutritional Value of Field Crickets as a Poultry Feedstuff
By Dun Wang, S. Zhai, Chuan-Xi Zhang, Yao-yu Bai, S. An, Yingchao Xu. 2005
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The proximate analysis, amino acid content and true amino acid digestibility and TMEn for poultry of adult Field crickets Gryllus testaceus Walker, were investigated. The insect was also used as partial replacement of protein supplements in the broiler diet on an equal CP percentage and TMEn basis. The results indicated that the adult insect contained: crude protein 58.3%; fat 10.3%, chitin 8.7% and ash 2.96% on dry matter basis, respectively. The total amounts of methionine, cystine and lysine in the Field crickets were 1.93%, 1.01% and 4.79%, respectively, and their true digestibility coefficients, determined in cecectomized roosters, were 94.1%, 85% and 96%, respectively. The TMEn of this insect meal was 2,960 kcal/kg determined in cecectomized roosters. When corn- soybean meal diets were formulated on an equal CP percentage and TMEn basis, up to 15% Field cricket could replace control diet without any adverse affects on broiler weight gain, feed intake or gain:feed ratio from 8 to 20 d posthatching. (Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2005. Vol 18, No. 5 : 667-670)
Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science
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- Insect meal as renewable source of food for animal feeding: a review (2014, result): “…result coincided with reports by other researchers, which did not find differences in growth indexes between broilers that were fed the control diet, a cricket-based diet, Anabrux simplex (Finke et al., 1985) or Gryllus testaceus (Wang et al., 2005), or with grasshopper meal (Ojewola et al., 2005).”
- Recent advances in role of insects as alternative protein source in poultry nutrition (2018, background): “Wang et al. (2005) reported that the CP and EE of field cricket (DM basis) was 58.3% and 10.3%, respectively which is comparable with those of conventional protein feed supplements i.e. SBM (46.8 and 1.84%, respectively), meat meal (48.5 and 8.47%, respectively) and FM (60.2 and 4.11%,…”