Burundese domestic ruminants usually consume overday grasses from limited natural grasslands and rest overnight in stabulation. Their productions may be partially improved by supplementary feeding during stabulation. However, nutritive value of available feedstuffs used in small farms are not well known, leading to present work. Samples of natural grass (feedstuff 1), cultivated grasses (2 to 5) or legumes (7, 8), grass silage (6) and agro-industrial residues (9 to 15) were chemically analyzed, usingclassical procedures for dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), fat, ash, Ca, P, and Kurschner's method for crude fibre (CF) Net energy (UFL, UFV) and intestinal digestible protein (PDIN, PDIE) content were calculated according to Demarquilly et al (1978, in : Alimentation des ruminants, INRA ed, Versailles, 469-584) and Xande et al (1989, in : Paturages et alimentation des ruminants en zone tropicale humide, INRA ed, Paris, 21-30).
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