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Zach Atkinson enjoys spending time after school at his grandparents pasture driving the hay tractor to feed their cows at DFS Ranch in Marion. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

Zach Atkinson returns from the pasture to pick up another bale of hay to take out to feed the cows at DFS Ranch in Marion. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

Zach Atkinson walks through the herd of cows as they feed on the hay he delivered to them in the hay tractor at his grandparents DFS Ranch in Marion.

(Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

A calf observes Zach Atkinson as he tries to feed it the hay that he had recently delivered to them in the pasture at DFS Ranch in Marion. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

(Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

A mother cow cleans her new calf as it tries to feed from her mothers utters in a pasture separate from the rest of the herd at DFS Ranch in Marion. Calves are usually able to walk within a few minutes following birth and soon after are able to suckle from their mother. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

Cows approach the tractor to feed on the new bale of hay before Zach Atkinson is able to unload it for the herd of cows to eat in the pasture at DFS Ranch in Marion. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

Atkinson family's DFS Ranch has many baby calves among the herd of cows in Marion. The bulls live separate from the female cows across the street in another field. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)

Dallas Atkinson watches the new baby calf in the DFS Ranch pasture in Marion from his dining room window with his wife Floydene and grandson, Zach Anderson. (Photo by: Christopher Reeves/Park Record)