ArticleScientific reports2021
Providing live black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) improves welfare while maintaining performance of piglets post-weaning.
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- Implications of No Tail Docking on Performance, Health, and Behavior of Pigs Raised Under Commercial Conditions in Brazil.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Regulatory Effects of Maternal Intake of Microbial-Derived Antioxidants on Colonization of Microbiota in Breastmilk and That of Intestinal Microbiota in Offspring.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Effect of Supplementation with Black Soldier Fly Extract on Intestinal Function in Piglets Infected with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Dietary Taurine Improves Growth Performance and Intestine Health via the GSH/GSSG Antioxidant System and Nrf2/ARE Signaling Pathway in Weaned Piglets.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Insect meals in a circular economy and applications in monogastric diets.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2023Article
- Effects ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Available for millions of years but discovered through the last decade: Insects as a source of nutrients and energy in animal diets.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2022Review
- Improvements in Performance of Nursery Pigs Provided with Supplemental Oil Derived from Black Soldier Fly (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Consequences of timing of organic enrichment provision on pig performance, health and stress resilience after weaning and regrouping.Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience · 2022Article
- Welfare implications for broiler chickens reared in an insect larvae-enriched environment: Focus on bird behaviour, plumage status, leg health, and excreta corticosterone.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Providing Live Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- DietaryFrontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
During weaning, piglets experience concurrent social, physical, and nutritional stressors. Consequently, piglets often have poor feed intake and display increased oral manipulative behaviours post-weaning, indicative of compromised welfare. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) possess many attractive properties for pigs and could therefore function as effective edible enrichment, potentially alleviating weaning stress by facilitating exploration and promoting feed intake. In this study, pairs of piglets received a small amount of either live BSFL or wood shavings (8 pens/treatment) scattered throughout the pen twice a day for 11 days after weaning. Home-pen behaviour was scored by instantaneous scan sampling on day 2, 5 and 8, and behavioural responses to a novel environment and novel object were scored on day 10/11. Performance-related parameters were observed regularly. Larvae provisioning increased floor-directed exploration and decreased object-directed exploration, pig-directed oral manipulation, fighting and eating of pellets, and reduced neophobia towards a novel object. Pellet intake was significantly decreased by BSFL provisioning during day 4-11 post-weaning, although feed and net energy intake including BSFL never differed between treatments. BSFL provisioning did not influence piglet growth, feed efficiency, energy efficiency, and faecal consistency. To conclude, live BSFL provisioning positively affected post-weaning piglet behaviour while maintaining performance.
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