Cows never fail to amaze me with what decisions they decide to make with their young. I was raised part of the year on my grandparents' dairy farm, and when we started on our own part time ranch after our marriage, itcwas not too many years before I just had to have a few head of dairy just to keep a bit of grandpa's legacy going. One thing my grandfather always said about his cows is that we should never believe a cow was being dumb about keeping or rejecting a calf, being willing to nuture twins or letting one go to bond with another cow, or chosing to trust its dairymen to care for a calf it knewvit could not. We have had many a selection of stories that over many, many years have proven that his insistence on letting cows sort things out themselves was never the wrong thing to do, as long as standing back and letting your gut tell you when its time to intervene. Our craziest story happened during the start of Covid, when we had cow deliver a stillborn calf while a herd member gave birth to twins and immediately rejected her first for her second. Given that the first born was up and nursing well before momma delivered the second, the first calf appeared to be initially off toca decent start but once the twin was born, momma made the decision that #2 apparently needed more care than the first. We tried very hard to get the cow with the stillborn calf to adopt twon #1 but she kept running the calf off back in direction of its biological mother, almost as if to be saying that she knew who that calf belonged too. By the end of the day it was clear that twin #1 was not going to be accepted by either cow, or that is how it appeared to be, so we choose to intervene with bottle feeding as the little guys was looking like he was wearing down. Getting him back to the house and barn, settled in and fed and warm he seemed to be doing well at least until about 5 AM when we were woken up to our LGD and our border collie having all manner of hysteria near the side shed the calf had been settled in. Of course, we immediately panicked thinking some predator had decided to move in on the shed we were out in the corral stil in pajamas only to be greeted by the cow who had the stillbirth doing her best to break into the shed and the calf catterwalling with all its might wanting to nurse. Backtracking along the cow's path it ended up appearing that at some point she must have changed her mind about thinkingbthe calf belonged to the other cow and perhaps it might be hers. She left a nice trail of several broken fences, including going through two electric ones separating pastures and must have spent most of the night coming in from where the main herd was, including a long walk down a local road and found not only the homestead but the corral next to the shed, where she barged through a couple of panels to claim the calf. The calf had been calling on and off during the night after a late night bottle and momma cows tend to have really good hearing. When we opened the shed up, the calf went for the milk, and the cow was acting as if she had been bonded to it since birth. Why she changed her mind about raising the calf I will never know and how she managed a 4 mile trip she never had taken before to locate where the calf had gone too, is also beyond me, but gives my grandfather's belief that cows will sort issues out a lot of credence. Interestingly the LGD at rhe house was the one we kept there as we keep some goats and chickens there and he was a bit freaked out over finding a very large cow in the yard, and our border collie was not helping as she wanted to herd that very big cow back where it came from. Sometimes animals just work out things for themselves.

Just had my 1st set of twins March 24th. She claimed the 2nd born calf. After a few hrs of watching them she was tending to her favorite and the other one snuck in and got his colostrum. Afterwards I took him and now we have a bottle calf. The confusion on that cows face when she had 2 calves that both smelled like her was definitely a funny sight

Aww he's a brand new little baby! We had a cow that had twins last year. The cow only took one. We bottle fed the other. I gave my son the job of feeding him. He loved taking care of him . We named them Ben and Jerry 😊 Ben was with his mom and we took care of Jerry. He turned out to be a beautiful bull

Maci captured my heart today, almost bringing me to tears. She reminded me of my daughters (now in their 40s) when they were the same ages as your two. This video is a keeper - save it for her wedding reception!💝

“Hi Mister, how ya doing?” Sweet little caregiver❣️

It’s a newborn baby, it’s hungry, lonely and completely confused. Tender loving everything

The only thing to expect is the unexpected . That’s been our experience with our ranch . Great job bottle feeding .

You are a very humble man. I appreciate your SPIRIT

Tyler, I’m so glad you found the twin calf!!!!! it is sure a pretty calf. I’m kind of surprised at its color given the color of your cows.! it breaks my heart when a cow abandon a baby calf!!! they represent so many things on the farm but initially, they’re just darn cute. I love listening to your daughter talk about it and repeat everything you said, and her brother to be quiet and not making any moves. The amazing thing is he was off playing and waiting his skin and then he gets to the trailer and he says quietly exactly what daddy instructed him to do. It just goes to show, children are listening when we don’t think they are !!!!!😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ hands I am going to hope by the time you make your next video you’ve been able to get the cow which lost her calf, to accept this baby as her own❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ I loved helping my grandpa bottlefeed baby cash only back then we mostly use buckets that hung on the fence… But now that I think about it, that was when they were older. We did use bottles, but dad and grandpa did the bottles and we can get the buckets. It’s such a good experience for children to do that and on one hand, it would be good for your daughter and son to be a part of that experience, but it takes a lot of time plus experience and I understand that.… Not to mention it’s healthier for the calf to Nurse a cow and learn about life from a cow ….saying prayers for the best🙏❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ Going back to the color of the calf, I guess I should’ve paid more attention to what the bull looked like ~ that would probably give me my answer. By the way, Tyler Those are pretty good cow sounds you made trying to catch that calf😊😊❤️❤️

The Simmental genetics seem to throw more twins than a lot of other breeds in my experience. Good job man, you made the right call and it was great to see the family out there interacting as well.

My jaw dropped when I saw Belly on the ATV’s shelf that you installed for Callie! Belly’s grown so much!!!

Love the color on this calf. Love the little patch of black. Thank you for taking the calf in. Maci will love to feed him.

Never like to start your day like this but you made it a win!! Great to see the kids and Mrs. FTR out there too! Your first thought to how your calf was abandoned was exactly how this happened to one of our twins. You definitely made the euphonism "improvise, adapt and overcome" work! Another good day on the FTR!!

I sure hope Rivets little man keeps improving. He is gorgeous.

Tyler, I'm so glad you found that little calf. Instead of calling him your bottle calf, how about calling him Easter?😊

Good luck little guy. You've got a wonderful family to take care of you.

Sounds like she already named the little fella Mister!!

I think your name could be "Farmer Tyler Gentle Rancher" I love how gentle you are, and teaching your kids to be gentle.

What a wonderful experience for your children!

I absolutely think you made the right call! As hard as that was to do. If that mother was honestly concerned about her calf she would have come running long before that. I think if you hadn't brought that calf home, he wouldn't have made it through the night.

Ok.... Just how STINKING CUTE is she talking to that baby?? Absolutely adorable feeding and loving him. So so sweet!!! Let me tell you, Tyler, you two are doing it RIGHT!

Rivet was sure spreading a lot of love. Best of luck to your bottle calf, and it looks like you will have plenty of help.

So good to see your kids helping out with the new calf. Good luck with the bottle calf.

I love the play by play on feeding by your daughter 😂❤

Grreat Teamwork!! Calm and quiet!

❤Darn, calfing season has been a chalenge right out of the gate !!! Your a great guy.

He is getting good care from the whole family !!!

Maci did a great job today. Helping with the little calf and gently reminding Matty to be quiet and calm, what a great big sister. Will Maci be going to kindergarten this September ? She will do amazingly! Matty is getting big fast. Both are so adorable. Good luck with calving season. Lots of beautiful rivet colored babies so far.

Calf having all that energy is 100 times better than no energy 👍

The grey calves are so cute! Love them!!

Just hope the lil fella is doing okay. He definitely didn't look bad. Your family is so beautiful. Your children are definitely yours. They look exactly like you. So precious. Very wholesome. Thank you for sharing. Very nice. 💯❤️

So great morning farmer. I was watching the News this morning. It had me so triggered I had to stop watching. Then I turned in FTR and immediately felt better. Thank you

Great job Tyler. Glad that U discovered the little Calf crying for his mother. What a little Cutie. I got such a kick out of seeing the Little ones. They r growing up so fast and being so Smart and Disciplined. I am sure the little calf will come along fine. Keep Pushing Tyler, U Rock!

We just released our orphaned calf to the herd a couple days ago. It was born right before Christmas. Bottle and feed twice a day for three months. My wife says we are not going to do that again! I think we gave it an advantage by keeping it in a pen where the herd walked by daily. So it was fairly drama-free when we let it go. As well as a bottle of milk we also gave it a bottle of hot water at every feeding even after we tapered off on the milk rations. We never saw any sign of scours. Maybe the water helped or maybe we were lucky.

I'd give multiple thumbs up if i could. Thanks for sharing.

Good to see the kids out there with the new Calve baby bottle I should say.. It would be really neat to see the stillborn mother take over this one that would be kinda neat we'll see

Don't forget that you have a possible mom replacement with the cow that had the still born. Good job Cowboy.

Great job Tyler he should be lucky to to have ya as his foster dad ya should call him.Lucky

Never a dull moment on the ranch. As if you needed more work. 😊

Have you ever tried vanilla for a graft? Of course it would have to be a cow that is pretty chill. We put vanilla on the calf and on the cows nose before introducing. Seems to work well with cattle, sheep and goats. At least my experience. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Probably a rough day for you Tyler but I really enjoyed today's video. Overall a nice peaceful experience. It nice that Mrs. Tyler Ranch has farming experience to help you on on days like today. Hoping #51 adopts that little calf if you attempt to pair them.

Oh he is soo beautiful! And I love the name Mister that your daughter called him!! What a sweet little boy. ❤ 🐄

One thing for certain was if the mama didn't come running when you grabbed that calf, she didn't have any interest in him.

What a precious little calf!❤ Your scenario of how he was abandoned is exactly what I was thinking. He's an unwanted twin. At least he's healthy enough to be running around which is a plus for a bottle calf! He's adorable! Rivet breeds beautiful calves! Can't wait to see what his name will be!!!! And what a great opportunity for your own babies to help in his care while you're his "surrogate mom"!😘 That'll be a nice little home for him while he's in your care!

Hey Tyler, it looks like Rivet is the man. It seems he’s the father of most of your calf’s so far keep a tally. Keep up the great work with the bottle calf. I’m sure your children are gonna love him and help with the bottle feeding.

A ranch mystery. Cute kids.

Tyler...Tyler, 🤣🤣 white is the dominant coat color over black!! Especially when most of your cows are hetero black with all the hereford mixed in. Love your videos man!

Your little girl is very intelligent and empathetic. I see a future farmer in the making.

Now you’ve got Buddy and Lil Buddy.

I’m in australia with Herefords and Santa’s however when I try to foster calves I typically put the cow in the crush and let calf suck off cow for a couple days but locking calf in the same pen with cow. I have had success fostering calves on dry cows just weaning their previous calf or cows that have calved up to 8 days before new calf. Like you said I think it would be worth a shot at fostering that way you don’t need to buy formula and the cow still raises a calf.

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I like how Belly was sitting in a car seat when FTR was taking the calf home, Belly looked like she was really enjoying herself! 🐾

Nice to see your family helping out with the baby calf

The baby calf was so sweet! So were the children!

Tough call on the calf! You do what you think is best!

Have nothing but complete respect at the work this kind of job takes!

Good morning, Tyler - it certainly looks like Rivet's been busy jusging from the coloring of your new calves !! Doing what he's supposed to be doing !! Good job, Rivet !! Thanks for sharing your dilemma this morning, Tyler. I like your logical thinking about the abandoned calf and hipe he grows up to be a fine specimen !! Have a good day, Tyler.

All your calf so far are beautiful I love the colours it’s not hard to tell who the father is far your kids are adorable ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Such a cute little calf!! I am glad you were there to find and rescue him quickly!! It would be cool if the stillborn mother would be able to take him but I will be watching to see what happens!!

Your Daughter talking to the calf! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

TY to u and your family to opening your hearts and souls to love and care for this beautiful calf orphan!!!! God ❤Bless u all.

Your helpers are as cute as the calf🥰 you are teaching your children so much about life that they will grow up to be hard working, loving and well rounded! I grew up in the country in Montana and I would not change it for the world 🥰

This roused all the maternal and sympathetic feelings for sure! The little calf seems to be adapting well now; it’s too awful to consider what would have happened without your intervention. I’m glad too that you were able to determine how it all happened. Your children are just adorable!🧡

A new little Buddy. Good job Tyler.

Great to see your kids and Mrs FTR in your video Tyler

Thank you for this video what a sweet calf. I love to see the whole family involved. Merci and Matt are growing so quickly. Great to see Mrs FTR. What a beautiful day. Never take it for granted, you are very blessed.

What a kind farmer you are. Genuinely caring. Awe and such darling farming kids! What a life. I’m sold I gotta watch more

Great video , the whole family involved , team work , memories, stay safe .

Hi FTR you are such a caring farmer as I’m sure most are that little calf is so cute your kids are going to make wonderful farmers what a wonderful way to grow up to see nature at its best wishing your family a wonderful EASTER

Your new bottle baby is really cute. Hope he does real well. Hope his twin isn't a heifer. Cute kids, too.

Hay Tyler nice job on taking care of the baby calf luckily you found him or her in time awesome job thank you for sharing blessings to you and your family can't wait to see that calf grow

Your kids are so adorable I love watching your vidoes

Kids are sure growing!! Happy Easter!

Maybe get the cow that lost the first one to accept him ? I am sure you will take good care of him :) Handsome little guy

Love to watch people who work in a ranch. Is a lot of hard work, but rewarding at the end.

Mrs FTR - love your chicken boots🐓(13:18)

GREAT JOB TYLER

another day in the life on the farm. thank you for all you do

Glade u found the little calf and brought it home I know the kids will enjoy helping with the feeding have a happy Easter .

Thank goodness the little one was loud. If it had just laid down quietly you might have missed it untill it was too late

You probably need to feed the grey calf. Take it home and let your kids help feed it. Good to see your kiddos helping with the calf. Looks like a good temporary area for him. He has a chicken to entertain him.🐓🐔🐥

Just an FYI...bottle calves are very high right now...dairy cross in the $400 to $500 range and beef up to $800....so that might be an option

I am so happy thst you found this baby and rescued him a beautiful baby

Thanks for sharing Tyler your Family 3-28-2024❤

I had a friend that had a Jersey/Angus nurse cow that would only take black calves. So it's possible that mom only wanted the black twin. Cute little guy and I hope he does fine.

Beautiful Family Tyler ❤

Glad you find it before anything else found it that if the mother ain't going to take care of it awesome video thank you for the video

Great video Tyler

Enjoyed the new episode, looking forward to see the little guy progress

Learned a lot today. Excellent video 👍

Aww puppy in the baby seat

Tyler I watch a lot of utube videos and I think you have one of the best out there. I look forward every day when you but one out. Thank you very much.

Yep, I've had that confusion before.

what a beautiful place. 🌼🌱 he’s a lively, handsome, little guy. so glad you find him 🐄🌷🌱

lovely to see all them thriving

This is thefirst ti.e I've seen your channel. I've. Subscribed already because you seem so nice & kind. I'll be watching you a lot now😊

In the farm looks like it takes ALLLLLOT OF WORK , but it also looks very satisfying😊like to hear cows muuuu. Have a GRT rest of year.

Love your channel. I like the way you explain the ins and outs of ranching. 😊

You just popped up on my you tube?….I love animals and farming. I enjoyed watching you figure out your baby calf situation! Love seeing your family! Thank you for your video!❤️🥰🩵🥰❤️🥰🩵🥰❤️🥰🩵🥰❤️🥰🩵🥰

Great helpers!!! What a great thing to teach your children!! kindness