Evaluation of Musca domestica (House fly) larvae production from organic waste

Abstract

The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of organic waste (pig manure and chicken layer droppings) on the production of house fly larvae (HFL) and its nutritive value. A completely randomised design was used, with three treatments (pig manure, chicken layer dropping and equal combination of the pig and chicken excreta) replicated six times. The data for biomass reduction, larvae wet and dry weight, moisture, ash, crude fibre, crude protein, fat, calcium and phosphorus were analysed using analysis of variance. While the least square means were generated using the Tukey's honestly significant difference. Pig manure produced the highest yield of HFL significantly (P < 0.05), as indicated by both wet (3.61 g) and dry (0.63 g) larvae weight. Introduction of HFL reduced organic waste by 39–42%. Furthermore, results indicated HFL to contain high protein 50-53%, considerable levels of Ca (1.32–1.465%) and P (1.72–2.09%) on as is basis. It can be concluded that pig manure and chicken layer droppings are suitable substrates for the production of HFL, which contain a suitable nutritional value for use as a protein source in animal diets. The study recommends further studies on HFL production on a larger scale for inclusion in animal diets.

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Insect meal in poultry feed: a potential protein source

“…The housefly (Musca domestica) is considered a cosmopolitan insect species (Ortiz et al, 2011), having a high capacity to adapt to the environmental changes caused by man (Britto et al, 2008). Housefly larvae, in addition to having a high content of crude protein and ether extract (Table 5), also bring the benefit of reducing the organic matter used in their rearing (in the order of 40-50%), facilitating and potentiating their use as agricultural fertilizers (Uushona, Simasiku, & Petrus, 2019). Housefly meal (HFM) has great potential as a possible sustainable protein source and alternative in diets for poultry farming, providing animals with a large amount of energy and proteins, having a profile of essential amino acids that meets the nutritional requirements of birds (Pieterse & Pretorius, 2014), in particular, higher amounts of lysine, threonine and methionine compared to plant-based sources (Khan et al, 2016;Gadzama & Ndudim, 2019).…”

“…SD: standard deviation; N: number of studies observed; DM: dry matter; Source: 1(Adeniji, 2007;Pieterse & Pretorius, 2014;Khan et al, 2016;Uushona et al, 2019).…”