¹ Department of Animal Science, College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan, Lobesa, 14001 Punakha - BHUTAN
²Division of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Health and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi, 68425 East Java - INDONESIA
³Research Group of Animal Biomedical and Conservation, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Universitas Airlangga, Banyuwangi, 68425 East Java - INDONESIA
⁴Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sleman, 55281 Yogyakarta - INDONESIA
⁵Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, TR-26040 Eskişehir - TÜRKİYE
⁶Department of Biology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, TR-26040 Eskişehir - TÜRKİYE DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2025.34043 This study assessed the effect of feeding black soldier fly larva (BSFL) on broiler chicken production, meat quality, and physiological characteristics using a meta-analysis. Out of the 1878 articles that were reviewed from five databases (PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Cochrane Library, and ProQuest), 21 papers were selected for meta-analysis using the specific keywords "black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, broiler chickens, growth performance" and the PRISMA flow diagram. The R Studio software version 4.4.2 (Posit PBC, USA) was employed to analyze the meta-analysis and compute the standard mean difference (SMD), 95% confidence interval (CI), and random effects. The current meta-analysis demonstrated that providing BSFL meals for broiler chickens had a favorable impact on weight gain, feed efficiency, carcass percentage, breast and thigh muscles, cooking loss, drip loss, meat color lightness, and yellowness. On the other hand, favorable effects were also reported on erythrocytes, packed cell volume, mean corpuscular volume, heterophil: lymphocyte (H/L) ratio, serum glucose, alanine transaminase, aspartate aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyl transferase, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, uric acid, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron. It has been demonstrated using a meta-analysis study that the BSFL meal is beneficial for weight gain, feed efficiency, meat quality, and physiological properties in broiler chickens. Keywords : Black soldier fly, Broiler chickens, Food production, Meat quality, Physiological properties