Colby A. Redifer is a Ph.D. candidate in Ruminant Nutritional Physiology at the University of Missouri under the guidance of Dr. Allison Meyer. Originally from Blacksburg, Virginia, his fascination with pregnant ruminants began while raising and exhibiting seedstock cattle, sheep, and goats with his family. He attended Texas Tech University for his B.S. in Animal Science and completed a M.S. in Animal Science at Iowa State University. Colby’s M.S. research focused on peripartum supplementation of methionine hydroxy analog on beef cow-calf performance. While at Mizzou, his research has focused on developmental programming, specifically the impacts of late gestational nutrient restriction on prenatal and postnatal offspring nutrient utilization in beef cattle. Colby hopes to obtain an academic position where he can continue to study the effects of nutritional and environmental factors on the partitioning of nutrients between the dam and offspring during gestation and lactation.