Feral cat help.

I live on a pretty big farm, and there are Plenty of wild cats around. One of them was pretty friendly and would like to watch me for a while. So I started to leave out food for him and eventually won his trust. He followed me home and slept outside on my porch for a while. For about a year he would be outside every morning and follow me around the farm. I would greet him with a meow and he would reply back with a meow.

After I stopped seeing him for a month when I spotted him again He stopped following me or sleep on the porch. Whenever I see him, I can still meow at him and he will reply, but he seems to be doing his own thing now.

What I want to know is that did I do something wrong?

Have no other pets. Never shouted at him nor hurt him.

Just miss my morning buddy.

He perhaps got himself another buddy?  Or his main competitor has disppeared, so the revire is more OK for him now...

Or, he is fully grown and mature tom now (it can take to over 2 years), so he hasnt the same patience no longer...

TNR him - which is a nice gift to him too, and the chance will increase he will want to be your outside / inside kitty...

I think he got terribly frightened or even hurt by something, most likely another animal, near your house and is too frightened to come back. I would just feed him in the daytime and do not leave food out near the house, another tom would definitely keep chasing him away to keep the food for himself. Does he let you come near at a distance from your house? If he does that means something near your house is scaring him. Getting him neutered would make him less of a threat to the big toms and they might leave him alone, I know my toms always 'posture' around each other and yowl, but ignore and eat next to the females and the neutered males. I think he will come around in the future, but it will take a while. All the luck!

Wild toms tend to do their wild thing. I've seen it with farm cats---they may be pets when they're young but once they reach full maturity (age 2-3) they tend to go completely wild. If you want him to be a pet, you'd have to have him neutered. If he survives a few more years, it seems like a lot of farm toms will revert back to pet-hood again around age 8. But it's tough out there for tomcats so most of them don't live that long .