KuneKune Pigs
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Steel - Boar - Mahia Love
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Rolls Royce - Boar - Mahia Love
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Percy - Boar - Tutanekai
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Beatrice - Sow - Sally
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Marge - Sow - Rona
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Florence - Sow - Trish
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Jolene - Gilt - Rebecca Gina
Our Breeding Kunekune Boars
Steel - Boar - Mahia Love
Steel is our Mahia Love boar and has sired many litters for us. He is an absolute joy to own, as he is very sweet and gentle. He loves affection and rather loud when he greets you at the fence lines. He does his best to be respectful of us but due to him being a boar with tusks I have trained him to go to his food bowl when I feed him. I simply say “go to your bowl steel pig!” and he goes and I say “good pig steel pig!” I am honestly not sure why it worked out but it did and I love it ….he must understand English.
Rolls Royce - Boar - Mahia Love
Rolls is a boar out of Beatrice (Sally) and Steel (Mahia Love). He is turning out to be an lovely looking boar and has had great growth in his first year! He is super sweet and mellow and loves affection.
Percy - Boar - Tutanekai
Percy is our Tutanekai boarling and out of Duke and Belle. He will be breeding with Jolene for summer piglets 2025.
Our Breeding Kunekune Sows and Gilts
Beatrice - Sow - Sally
Beatrice- BVF Sally 7 Beatrice is a Sally sow and will be having her fourth litter of piglets this spring. She is a wonderful size pig and produces great breeding stock and also meat pigs. She is one of the noisiest pigs we own and she is always insisting on getting scratches and affection. As soon as we enter their paddocks she immediately goes behind us and nudges us on the calf with her nose until we pet her…. I don’t even have to look anymore I just know that it is her wanting something! She is a very attentive mother and we are very excited to see what she produces this year!!
Marge - Sow - Rona
Marge is a sow and I absolutely adore her face and her personality. Her name comes from her somewhat eventful arrival at our farm at 1 o’clock in the morning and in the rain. We just looked at her and thought how the heck are we gonna get this huge “piglet” out of this minivan!! But as usual my husband bucked up and just picked her up in a bear hug and carried her all the way to her little paddock! Ever since we have called her Large Marge. However she is not large and in charge…. she is much too sweet and so mellow and the other pigs boss her around. She is always the first to go eat the hay after the grain feeding and at first glance you might think…. “Dang! Girl likes her hay!!” but honestly I think she doesn’t like the food bowl fight! So much so that my husband now adds a ‘second dinner’ bowl behind a tree near the hay for just her. As soon as she is over the food bowl fight she runs to her ‘second dinner’ bowl. I am very excited to see what she brings this spring as far as growth rates.
Florence - Sow - Trish
Florence is a Trish sow and she just had her first litter this spring. She is also very sweet, calm and quiet. For whatever reason she absolutely adores me and when I come out there she will just stand right in front of me patiently waiting for me to pet her. I feel like she would stand there forever if I just kept petting her. She is not very noisy or pushy about it though …she just calmly and quietly waits for me to continue petting her. I’m very eager to see what kind of a mother she is and how she continues to grow.
Jolene
Sow - Rebecca Gina
Jolene is a gilt out of Jellybean (Rebecca Gina) and Steel (Mahia Love).
No Longer in our Breeding Program
Duke - Boar - Tutanekai
Duke is our Tutanekai boarling and will be breeding with Florence and Belle for spring litters. and Jolene for summer piglets. He is a very sweet, mellow, and laid-back boar and he has the agouti coloring which will be fun to see how that works out in his offspring. We know that he has the genotype for cream piglets so that will be fun to finally see.
Belle - Sow - Sally
Belle is out of Beatrice (Sally) and Steel (Mahia Love). She is very sweet and loud. A lot like here mother. She due to farrow her first litter this April and I am excited to see how she does.
Jellybean - Sow - Rebecca Gina
No longer in our breeding program but pictured here for reference
Jellybean-BVF Rebecca Gina 79, Jellybean is a Rebecca Gina sow. Jellybean is a very quiet and mellow pig and while she enjoys affection she is not nearly as pushy about it as some of our other pigs. She is more likely to be the last one in the bunch and not right up at the fence line. She is an extremely attentive and watchful mother and slightly bossy which is interesting because she is so mellow with other pigs. I love her coloring.
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About Kunekune Pigs
Kunekune Pigs, pronounced ‘cooney cooney’, is a lard pig that originated in New Zealand where it was known as the Maori Pig. They are a smaller breed than most other breeds and on average range from 150-300lbs. However some have reached up to 400lbs. They come in a variety of colors with either pricked or semi-flopped ears. They are a very docile breed and the boars are typically very easy to work with for most people.
They are considered a true grazing pig and do very little rooting if managed properly. Our pigs are typically only in one paddock for a week and do very little if any rooting if the area is good pasture. When there is little forage, if they are left in an area for extended periods of time (over a week), or if the ground is extremely loose/wet, like in spring, they will root more. The worst rooting we experienced is in early spring in an area of brambles/blackberries. They liked to dig up the blackberry plants and eat the roots. They have low grain requirements and slower growth rates than most other breeds. They seem to be much easier on fencing and housing than other breeds. Our pigs respect electric fencing extremely well.