Logan et al results.xlsx

This experiment was performed for an honours thesis. We studied how a diet of farmed chicken waste impacted the growth, protein, and fat development of black soldier fly larvae. The five treatments were chicken feed (control), chicken manure, chicken eggs, chicken meat, and a mixture of egg, meat and manure. The rate of development from larvae to pre-pupae was tracked. Once they had reached prepupal stage, they were were weighed, their length was measured, and then their protein content was measured via the Dumas method and their fat content was measured via a soxhlet extraction.