Kunekune

We just want to reassure everybody that, um, they're, of course, we're missing Sam.

He used to check in with them every time he was back at the farm and spend a lot of time with, um, especially Amy's father, who was, um, the, the great Angelica Kunekune pig.

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Um, and he, he'd been ...

Buddies.

They were.

He was, yeah, he was a, he was a sort of, you know, Kunekunes, they, they are, they're pretty, pretty cute looking, you know, sort of squashed up faces, and they've got the little tassels under their chins.

Mm.

They

have, especially like if you're looking at like your Kunikuni pigs or... you know, some of the Vietnamese pot bellies, they can have stenotic tracheas.

And so very narrow, which if they're more, if they're really morbidly obese, it can be really, really hard to for them to oxygenate if you have them sedated or anything like that so these are things to definitely consider when you're deciding to anesthetize them or not but yeah you're going to be using pretty small et tubes for them smaller than you think for sure so it definitely sounds like they are bulldogs

like when i think of their relation to just all the extra tissue in the throat they don't like being restrained and the sound is probably pretty similar when they're upset yeah um Yeah.

So we leave town, and she's al- she loves pigs, and she's been begging for pigs, begging for pigs.

Well, these friends of ours had these Kunekune pigs.

They're like a, like a, kind of like a potbelly pig.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, pigs are a little in the middle because there are some breeds, like Kunekunes, that will eat grass.

Yeah.

And they'll eat a lot of grass.

And we've raised them, not for harvest, all on grass, but we have seasons where we've raised them on grass, the, the Kunekunes, and they- they've done well.

Um, they don't finish fast or well.

A- and so, but that's not generally.

We're trying in, um, to integrate a new breed into our rotation, which is they're Gloucestershire Old Spots.

They are a heritage breed, but a lot of people hear heritage breed and they think like the Kunekune pigs or Idaho Pasture pigs, which are a much smaller pig, slow growing, and they're considered lard pigs.

They're really heavy in fat.

Where we raise large breed heritage pigs.