The British Kunekune Pig Society

Due to a change in circumstances I am tentatively looking for a new home for my three pedigree kunekune pigs. All three are from the same litter, born 29 October 2010, and are castrated males: Hamish, Hagrid, and Hector. As you'd expect they're full of character, not over-weight, and completely used...

Like the others, our boys love bananas, apples and carrots. They've occasionally had raw potatoes but only a few and very occasionally. Not noticed any side effects. They won't touch onions or leaks though, and don't seem particularly keen on cabbages/lettuce/etc, which isn't a bad thing as the hens...

Ours is the same - horrible, clinging mud. I've given the boys free range to the whole garden so they've got a bit of dry ground. They do like sleeping on top of the hay box I build - this is just a cage made of stock fencing fixed to an old pallet to keep it off the ground, and filled with loose ha...

Absolutely right, and the precise reason we ate our cockerel fordinner a few weeks back - he was just too dangerous to risk him hurting either one of our own children or one of their friends.

We got our three Kunes at 11 weeks and there's never been a fox problem. In fact they seem to actively discourage foxes from visiting the garden - presumably it's the scent - and so our hens remain hassle-free too despite us knowing foxes use our driveway as a shortcut to/from the harbour. As to hou...

I haven't noticed them giving ours any trouble. Presumably the thick hairy coat protects them.

Totally agree about giving piglets away not being necessarily a good thing, and might encourage the less-dedicated. We don't breed from our pigs but in the past we have had several litters of kittens, and I've always made a token charge (~?20) for each one which then went to the local cats rescue pe...

Loch Eriboll.

I tend to do it when it looks like it needs doing, generally. If the weather's been wet then it needs changing more often than if it's been dry and sunny, like lately. Even if it's been dry I'll still rake it out and dump any bits that look below par. Like yours, ours are very clean and never soil t...

I know someone on the north coast who might have a surplus Kune.

Would that be too far?

I'd be half minded to walk ours, too, but you can't (yet) get a walking license in Scotland.

I'd have thought a harness was the way to go, rather than just a collar and lead.

We use hay for ours. It's softer than straw plus they can eat it if they feel peckish in the night.

I recently had our three vaccinated. They need their second one in a couple of weeks.

The vet didn't think it was really necessary round here as there aren't many pigs but as I was likely to be visiting other herds I thought it wise, in case I brought it back with me.

I've no idea but they do look very cute, don't they?

Great pic and a great pig!

Good to see a youngster having a go, too.