Nicolas Deville

Mr. Nicolas Deville


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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3 June 2026 in Insects
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Hugo LuttenschlagerHugo Luttenschlager
Hugo Luttenschlager
JCJoachim Carpentier
Joachim Carpentier
YBYves Beckers
Yves Beckers
JWJose Wavreille
Jose Wavreille
NDNicolas Deville
Nicolas Deville
RMRudy Caparros Megido
Rudy Caparros Megido
The conversion of agro-industrial co-products and unsold organic plant-based residues into black soldier fly (BSF; Hermetia illucens (L. 1758)) proteins was assessed for use in organic post-weaning piglet diets in Belgium. A total of 72 crossbred female piglets (Landrace × Pietrain) were enrolled in a 5-week feeding trial. Experimental diets consisted of a common energy core (81.2% of the feed) and a protein core (18.8%) composed of organic soybean meal, pea meal, and potato protein, partially replaced by defatted BSF meal at inclusion levels of 15%, 25%, and 35%. All diets were formulated to be isoenergetic and isonitrogenous, with standardized ileal digestibility values for lysine, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan held constant. Incorporating 15% defatted BSF meal can substitute conventional organic protein sources without compromising growth performance in post-weaning piglets. However, economic modelling based on a cumulative feed conversion ratio expressed on a dry matter (DM) basis showed that break-even prices for organic BSF meal remained well below the price of the control protein nucleus (€1039·t−1, excluding VAT), indicating that economic parity could not be achieved at typical market prices under the observed feed efficiency.