11/21/2025
I am sharing a photo from 3 years ago.
A beautiful moment with our daughter and listening to the heart beat of the calf inside Lottie.
Lottie was my favorite cow. From the time she was a wee little thing she had a personality the was so wonderfully, and uniquely her. She used to slip under the electric fence and leave her paddock to eat grass in the yard. There were more than a few customers that had her come up to their car to say hi.
The calf we were listening to the heartbeat of was born a few weeks later and we named her Merry. She was Lottie’s last calf. Lottie died very suddenly a few months after giving birth from an illness that took her so fast we barely had time to say goodbye before she was gone. There are very hard things that happen on a farm sometimes. This was one of those hard things. When we loose a cow it breaks our hearts. Lottie has been gone 3 years now and I still think about her every day. Her presence was a joy. We have two of her beautiful daughters; Jovie and Merry. Jovie is so much like her mama. I see her mom in her face every time I look at her.
~Ava
“Listening for Lottie’s calf. 🥰”