Yep they’re pretty wild aren’t they? Haha! Thank you Cora!

Yes I’m glad they’re finally here. So far my luck has been good but as you know that can change fast. Trust me I’ve lost way more twins (one or both) over the years than I’ve had survive. If Mom can get them out ok they usually make it. So knock on wood!! We’ll see what happens! Thanks Jesse

@@farmertylerranch4399 great video. My dad wants to know if your house is a southwestern Adobe style home? Either way it is pretty, we like the color of it.

Thanks Jane and welcome to the channel!

Thanks Brad mine too! Stressful but also the most rewarding and exciting. As ranchers we should come up with our own version of a seasons greetings- would it be, Merry calving season? Happy calving season? Haha thanks again I hope things go well for you too!

Thanks Tammy he sure is!

Thank you Marcos!

Thanks yeah me too!

Thank you so much Finch Road Farms! I get a little impatient when I know they’re getting close! Thanks for watching

Awesome Josh! Yeah I guess it would be a bit chilly for those calves any earlier than that. Well it’s going to be here before you know it! Good luck this year!

Thanks a lot Dave. Yes things ramped up a bit around here last week for sure! I’m really glad you enjoyed the video, I think I’ve got some more good ones coming up as spring is here and things are starting to happen! Thanks again

Thanks Alan! Yeah it took long enough but they’re finally here. My wife’s got her mind made up she wants to keep him as a pet so I might be in trouble already with that one! Thanks again!

Thanks Chris yeah so far we’re doing good but still a long way to go! I think my wife wouldn’t mind a few more bottle calves haha! Glad you enjoyed the video man. Are you still on the road?

Congratulations on your new baby momma Tyler!

Thanks Eric. Yes I was surprised she delivered them unassisted being as big as they were. Hope your little girl is feeling better today!

@@farmertylerranch4399 she is thank you next checkup appointment is in April. Hope you have a great afternoon calving season is stressful but yet it's the most fun time of the year to watch them Jump Around have a great evening

Thank you Kristin!

Haha! I’m about 90% sure my wife had the calf in the house while I was at work. She won’t admit it, but sometimes you just know!! Thanks DFF!

It is a pretty cool job I must say. Very rewarding!

we had bull calves every for beef in the fall, as kids we shared the task of bottle feeding, they're so adorable

Wow that is unbelievable!! I bet he was a bit frustrated! Did he get the mothers to raise any or did he have 8 bottle calves? That is crazy. Thank you Barry I appreciate you watching!

Haha that’s pretty funny Zeze! Thanks!

Yes I think you’re right. Usually we get 3 or four, then a few days of nothing, and then, boom! Here they come! And weather does bring them, no doubt! Thanks HFT!

There’s that word again, “pet”. My wife keeps saying it too! Yeah I’m thinking we got ourselves a family pet here! Too many women in my family will hate me if he goes to the sale! Thanks John!

Glad I am not the only one that is out numbered. I went to the store to get dog food and came home with ducks and chickens. Now they are living in my bathroom as it is still winter and we have four feet of snow on the ground

Thanks Jason. Good luck with calving!

@@farmertylerranch4399 I had 2 more calves yesterday, Awesome!!!!!!!!

Thanks Kory, yeah one of my dogs is quite fascinated with the calf already. So far the weather has been great and looks like it’s going to hold. I’ve never tried goat milk for calves. Piglets do great on it but never tried calves. Thanks for watching!

@@farmertylerranch4399 I milked a couple of goats when I was Kid and we used to feed the milk to my pigs and then we got a bottle calf and we can mix a little bit of that goat's milk in with the replacer you had to watch though cuz the milk was so rich

Hey no worries! Thanks for checking out the old videos I hope you’re enjoying them. Thanks Maverick!

Yes I imagine it is! You know I’d never even heard of a “calf warmer” until I started watching KZfaq! So what’s your protocol for twins? Let the cow raise both? Bottle feed one? Give one away? Depends on the situation? I’m interested in what others do. Thanks Kmsfarms!

I really base my decision on the cow. If it’s a cow who has a lot of milk, and loves both calves, I’ll let her raise both. If I have another cow lose a calf, I will graft one of the twins. That way I have a cow with a job and end up with 2 bigger calves to sell rather than a set of twins that didn’t get enough milk. Hope that makes sense.

Yes makes perfect sense. I’ve done all of the above and still not sure what the “right” way is. Like you say, depends on the cow. Thanks Kms!

Yeah he liked it so much he was kicking and wrestling with joy (I assume)!!

Yeah he liked it so much he was kicking and wrestling with joy (I assume)!!

Oh believe me I am. Any live calf is a good one! Even if I do have to bottle them really I don’t mind. Thanks for watching Diamond Heart Ranch!

I use the twins for adoption if I loose one. At least mom has a baby then and you can keep that good cow. I can show you what I do if it happens, hopefully not but you know how it goes.

Thank you very much. I’ve done it a few times but like you said, hopefully it doesn’t come to that! Thank you very much for subscribing too! I really appreciate it

Yeah I can see me doing that in really bad weather too! Luckily these guys were born on a beautiful day and the weather is pretty mellow here. Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed it!

To tell you the truth I have no idea what bottle calves go for around here. I’ve never bought one and I’ve never sold one! I’d imagine pairs would bring a premium now because the grass is waking up, that’s usually how it goes. Sounds like the perfect time to expand BTO! If you can get pairs for around $1000 the calf almost pays for both of them at the first sale. Thanks for watching BTO!

Thanks a lot BCDFWA. Yes grafting is an option if I have a cow lose a calf. That’s definitely something I’ll consider if the opportunity presents itself. I’m glad you guys are enjoying the videos, or at least one of you is, I never know who leaves the comment! Haha! Thanks for watching!

Farmer Tyler Ranch I would never want you to have a cow lose a calf of course. I was thinking more along the lines of if you had a cow with enough motherly instinct and made enough milk to support two calves that she’d be willing to take another one on.

Yep cows are the same way! Haha! Thanks Greg

Both sets were freemartins wouldn’t you know! The heifer calf from the black set had some markings on her face that I can easily recognize but I had to tag the red white face one because she just looked like all the other red white face heifers. Thanks Allie!

@@farmertylerranch4399 Oh geesh! Figures...Mother Nature tries her best I know, but sometimes I gotta wonder! Thanks for your response ☺️

Haha! Yes there were a bunch

Haha! Hopefully another one or two today! I’ll at least feel better once all the heifers are done. Thanks a lot Jon!

Thank you. Total (owned and leased) is around 120-150. It’s not much but it’s very productive ground that can handle a high stocking rate. Thanks for watching!

First of all thank you for checking out the video! It’s very cool to talk with someone from a totally different part of the world! These cows are all beef cattle. The mothers are mostly Angus with some ancient Hereford genetics mixed in there. This years calves are out of two bulls, on black angus and one Hereford. Pretty easy to tell who daddy is when you see the calves! Thanks again for watching!

I love watching your videos. I love animals. When I was first married my x-husband worked on a dairy farm. I use to help milk on weekends. I've been there when they had to pull calves, bottle fed calves and drove the tractor to the field to bring the cow and her calf to the barn. Sorry I'm rambling. I love the videos, I think I've missed some, but will try to keep up now. Thanks for your time, Cecile from Hanover County VA.

Wow 17 sets that’s crazy! Yeah I couldn’t believe that cow had the first set unassisted. They were pretty good size. So far we’ve been lucky this year but hell we’re just getting started!

Thanks a lot Mark I appreciate it! At the moment I’ve got 6 does, one kid, and one buck. That is subject to change though at any moment!

They’ll come soon enough, good luck with everything!

Everyone is doing just fine thanks!

Yes the phenomenon is known as “Freemartin Twins”. Most common in cattle, when the twins are mixed sex (one male and one female) the female has a 90% chance of being sterile. Has to do with sharing blood supply between both twins and the hormones from the male twin messing up the females reproductive development. It can happen in sheep, but very rare! Thanks Greg

@@farmertylerranch4399 exactly! We had one OLD cow, kept hoping she'd leave us another heifer to replace her with. Her absolute last year(she was having a hard time, it *Had* to be her last year) she dropped a heifer, we celebrated, and 9 hours later, she dropped a bull calf. I cried.

We checked that heifer anyways, on the infinitesimal chance she'd implemanted *just* long enough before her brother that there'd been no hormonal exchange, but it was in vain. She *was* altered. Crying shame. Her dam was a helluva cow! If she wasn't so old, we might've tried for another year, knowing(now) why the last year had pulled her down so badly, with ai and sexed semen, but she WAS old, her front teeth were worn to beneath her gumline, so it wasn't fair to her to ask her to exist on pasture and handfeeding alfalfa cubes, and BOSS.(which is what she'd done the previous year, as *my* baby)

Yes definitely true!

You nailed it!

Yeah I believe that too. I guess they wait until they are good and ready don’t they? Thanks Roger!

Yeah cows really aren’t supposed to have twins. And thinking back, we never got them until maybe 10-15 years ago and even then it was rare. Must have got a bull that had that gene or something! Thanks Blake

That’s funny it’s the exact opposite here. I think the reason is that there is a big market for small squares for horse owners. Most of them don’t have a tractor or any way to move rounds so they all want small squares. I sell about half my hay crop to horse owners so I have to do small squares. The other big market here is dairies. They want large squares or small squares depending on the size of the dairy.

Farmer Tyler Ranch understand that completely crazy how much different things are throughout the country. Not gonna lie after watching you feed squares makes me appreciate my round rolls lol. Great looking cattle and beautiful place. I really like your rented property. Enjoy the videos and keep them coming. So far I have came across you and Our Wyoming Life and really enjoyed both and have learned a few things as well.

Thank you Ryan. Yeah I’m wanting a round baler more all the time. They are just unicorns around here. The closest one I could find was like 700 miles away! The rented property is really a beautiful piece of land, I don’t think I’ve even really showed the wooded area much. I watch OWL too! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos I hope you stick around!

Farmer Tyler Ranch I’ll be sticking around. Hope you find you a baler soon that’s close.

Well if we’re talking about maternal instincts there is really no way to tell until they actually have a calf. Same with milk production and even then you really won’t see her true potential until about the third calf I’d say. As far as choosing replacement heifers, I look for wide framed balanced heifers. It’s easier when you have a group to compare. Pick the ones with wide hips that came out of good moms. Also it helps if you know their age, you’ll want to breed them at 14 months old, no sooner. Other than that, look at their disposition. You don’t want crazy cows! It’s hard to tell you everything in a paragraph but that should give you a good start. Hope that helps!

@@farmertylerranch4399 Thanks, yes it does!, im trying to improve my genetics at the ranch, im putting brahman so i can improve the rusticity and planning to keep the bull for 3 years, then change to a more european, like beefmaster, so that´s why i wanted to know with my new calf too choose the right ones

I think a Brahman cross would be a great choice assuming you’re in a hotter part of Mexico (frequently seeing 100*F and higher). Sounds like you’re on the right path!

Wow sounds like you’ve got the same gene I do. How do you guys handle it?

@@farmertylerranch4399 were dairy so we have to feed all the calves anyway

Oh ok haha! Yep a little different! Thanks James

Haha! Yeah starting to think an old jack rabbit slipped one in there somewhere down the line! Thanks Worm Hole! You always give me a laugh!

@@farmertylerranch4399 My pleasure. I find life goes by better with a smile.

Haha yeah I did good right? I’ll let her know!