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This little piggy went to market Silver Springs Country Recreation and Wellness brings free-range bacon to the table MICHELE TAYLOR Caledonia Courier
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Little Pig, one of the Silver Spring’s wiglets, gets some loving attention and ear scratches from owner Morgan Buck while she relaxes under some shade out of the extreme heat July 10.
Whether you’re barbequing, slow-cooking dinner or making Sunday morning breakfast - there’s one staple that goes with any of these activities – pork. Silver Springs Country Recreation and Wellness brought in four sows and a boar last February to expand their already established grass-finished beef operation with healthy happy free-range pork products. The pigs which range from grown and wiglets – a name to separate the older piglets from the younger ones – right down to young piglets who were happily roaming the property when this reporter was out for a visit. Morgan Buck, who operates Silver Springs with his wife Kerry, said the first year with the Tamworth-Berkshire cross sows and DurocYorkshire cross boar was a challenge with a new kind of livestock that requires different
nutrients and care than cattle. He said last year only one sow produced a viable pregnancy but added this year the hope is that with their increased knowledge of the livestock they will have a more productive winter and new stock next year. Buck put together an overwintering barn, which is completely moveable, for the sows last winter. The wintering barn is constructed of square hay bales with a pallet base to keep the bales off the ground and also hosts a heated water recycling system for the overwintering livestock. The building was incredibly cool when we stood inside while talking to get out of the midday heat. Buck said he wanted to construct something that would fit in with the couple’s style of raising healthy, free-range livestock. “I haven’t seen this done anywhere,” he said of the moveable structure. Most of the structure Please see ‘Going’, page 8
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