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Advocating Entomology: Insect Research for the Advancement of Animal Feed Applications

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2541

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ellen S. Dierenfeld

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Guest Editor
LLC & School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell, UK
Interests: comparative animal nutrition
Dr. Elida M. Espinoza

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Guest Editor
Enviroflight, LLC, Yellow Springs, OH, USA
Interests: entomology; insects; genetics; breeding; sustainability; black soldier fly; insects as food and feed

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue welcomes full papers from abstracts presented at the symposium “Advocating for Insects as Food and Feed", held as part of the 67th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America on November 2019, in St. Louis, MO. Manuscripts discussing entomological research which directly explores the biology of insects in animal feed by assessing insect performance and factors influencing current insect production operations will be considered with the aim to enhance animal feed applications. Highlighted research areas for improving animal feed, health and nutrition applications include supply chain considerations, economics and regulatory issues of insect farming, optimizing nutrient composition and feed ingredient safety in the use of insects in animal feed, and utilizing basic biological and animal husbandry principles to enhance insect production.

Dr. Ellen S. Dierenfeld
Dr. Elida M. Espinoza
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • insects
  • entomology
  • animal health
  • by-product feeds
  • disease control
  • insect farming
  • protein
  • sustainability
  • nutrition
  • biological control

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Evaluation of the Production Performance and the Meat Quality of Chickens Reared in Organic System. As Affected by the Inclusion of Calliphora sp. in the Diet
by Ainhoa Sarmiento-García, Carlos Palacios, Inmaculada González-Martín and Isabel Revilla
Animals 2021, 11(2), 324; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11020324 - 28 Jan 2021
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Abstract
The use of insects can be a possible source of protein. This study uses Calliphora sp. larvae (CLM) as a protein source in 320 one-day-old medium-growing male chicks (RedBro) during their first month of life. Chickens were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments. [...] Read more.
The use of insects can be a possible source of protein. This study uses Calliphora sp. larvae (CLM) as a protein source in 320 one-day-old medium-growing male chicks (RedBro) during their first month of life. Chickens were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments. Each group consisted of 10 animals, and a total of 8 replicas. Control group was fed with a certified organic feed. The experimental treatments were supplemented with 5% (T2), 10% (T3), or 15% (T4) of CLM, reducing in each case the corresponding percentage of feed quantity. Productive development and meat quality were analyzed, and near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was used as a tool for classifying the samples. Chickens of T4 showed greater final body weight and total average daily gain, but they reduced consumption and feed conversion ratio (FCR). The chicken breast meat of T4 had lower cooking losses and higher palmitoleic acid content (p < 0.01). NIRS classified correct 92.4% of samples according to the food received. CLM is presented as a potential ingredient for the diet of medium-slow growing chickens raised in organic systems. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advocating Entomology: Insect Research for the Advancement of Animal Feed Applications)
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