Ruminant Nutrition & Metabolism
Integrates nutritional and biochemical concepts to understand ruminant digestion and metabolism, advance diet formulation, and predict production outcomes.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.96 GPA, 38.5% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.56 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.71 GPA, 28.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Integrate nutritional and biochemical concepts to understand digestion and metabolism of nutrients.
Predict quantitative metabolic and production outcomes in ruminants.
Determine the role of metabolism in feed efficiency, animal production and health, and environmental load of ruminant production systems.
Investigate, interpret, summarize, and debate findings from scientific literature in order to develop and communicate recommendations for ruminant diets to identified audiences.
Apply research models to experimental and production data to predict metabolic outcomes
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.96 GPA, 38.5% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.56 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.71 GPA, 28.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
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Topics
- Digestive and metabolic processes in ruminants.
- Diet formulation strategies for ruminants.
- Health, production outcomes, nutrient efficiency, and environmental load.
- Scientific literature evaluation and debate.
Skills
- Formulating ruminant diets and communicating dietary recommendations to specific audiences.
- Predicting quantitative metabolic and production outcomes to improve health and nutrient efficiency.
- Evaluating, debating, and defending scientific arguments based on research findings.
- Rigorously communicating emerging scientific topics and recommendations to general audiences.
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