Kunekune Breeding Stock Raised for Calm Temperament, Strong Mothers, & Tender Meat
Kunekunes are the perfect pasture pig for small acreage with excellent meat and fat to boot!
This delightful, slow-growing, lard breed of heritage pig has a temperament as uniquely sweet as the meat itself! A non-destructive breed that doesn't exceed 300-400 pounds and prefers to graze and minimally root makes this pig an absolute essential to any pork program!
Our herd's breeding stock was hand-picked from 200 in 12 genetics that help get meat into your freezer by the time a piglet reaches its 1st birthday. Our 200 in 12 breeders are required to have thick-boned legs. We've found that thin-legged pigs with 200 in 12 genetics struggle to move the moment they put on too much weight, plus, their hooves require trimming frequently. Our thick-legged pigs have never needed a hoof trim and can get up off the ground from a resting position much more easily! (Flipping a 300+ pig over for a hoof trim is not fun!)
The iconic, up-turned nose of the kunekune is essential to keep this pig a grazing pig, and not a destructive rooter. We genetically test our pig herd for meat tenderness, mothering ability, and other traits. Anything that doesn't have a sweet temperament or can't care for their litter of piglets on their own has no place in our breeding program.
For meat tenderness genetics, we test through Igenity Swine's genetic testing. All of our pigs have scored 7's, 9's, or perfect 10's for tenderness! When I talked to the lab about our results, they stated over the phone, "How are you getting these results? Breeders all over are trying to get these results and they can't!" He was shocked when I told him these samples were all from Kunekune pigs! These are truly a special pig that deserves all the effort to preserve these special genetic traits from temperament to tenderness, Kunekunes are truly one-of-a-kind!
🐖Price List for Breeding-Quality Piglets
Our Selection Process
Any breeding quality piglet will be selected by the breeder based on birth weight, weekly weight gain, teat line and placement, proper body structure including movement, and weaning weight. Our pigs have reached market weight in 12 months whether they weaned at 20 lbs. or 30 lbs., but generally, we expect a piglet to gain weight at about 20% per week up to weaning, then about 16 lbs. per month thereafter to reach the 200 in 12 benchmark. These expectations are based on litters we've raised previously from farrow to finish. We cannot however guarantee that you will have the same results -- these are merely our own observations.
Deposit and Payment
A non-refundable deposit on breeding quality piglets of $100 will be due at reservation with the remaining balance due at pick up. A basic contract will be required to be completed at reservation. All breeding quality piglets will have a base price of $500 and will go up from there. We accept Paypal, Venmo, or Zelle, but cash is always king.
Registration and ID
Piglets will go home with full registration and breeding rights from AKKPS only since we are an AKKPS Exclusive Breeder. All piglets will be microchipped and samples pulled for DNA before they leave. Any piglets leaving Texas will be required to have their appropriate USDA ear tags and a CVI (certificate of veterinary inspection) from our vet.
Health and Vaccinations
Piglets will have had iron injections at 3 days of age and Rhinishield vaccine for pneumonia. Parvovirus vaccine is not offered by our vet for pigs, so if that is something you require, please mention it and we will try to work something out.
Transport and Travel
We will work with a transporter at buyer's expense. The transporters we have used in the past have quoted $1.00 per mile. We understand that this is a huge expense, but don't want you to be surprised if you've never shipped livestock before. Any out of state transport will require a CVI from our vet within 2 weeks of the piglet leaving and will be invoiced along with the final amount due to the buyer. The destination may have specific laws regarding livestock entry, please check and plan ahead with us. We have a short list of transporters with whom we have worked with in the past. Any transport crates that need to be purchased will be added to the final invoice of purchase.
Specifics and Details
If a buyer wants wattled piglets or a certain color, please indicate that when you place your deposit and we will work with your requests as best as the dice roll from the dam and sire lets us. :) If you are purchasing a lone boar and need a barrow for his companion, barrows will be $100. If you buy a starter pack unrelated breeding pair or trio, a companion barrow will be included free of charge.
🥓Feeder Piglet Price List
Price and Deposit
Feeder piglets at 8 weeks of age are $125 regardless of size and gender. A $50 non-refundable deposit is required for feeder piglets.
Castration Policy for Feeders
Boars will be castrated at 6-8 weeks of age before leaving, no exceptions. Feeder piglets will not be registered unless you intend to enter a pig into the Market Pig class at a show. If you decide to show your market barrow at a later date after purchase, we don't mind helping set up a market pig registration for the buyer at buyer's expense.
Health and Vaccinations
Feeder piglets WILL NOT receive vaccinations other than iron shots at 3 days of age, unless otherwise requested. We understand that most families raising their own pork want vaccine-free and we will honor this unless otherwise requested. Vaccines will be given at no additional charge if requested.
No Lone Pigs Policy
Piglets sold for market must be joining other pigs, otherwise two will be required to be purchased together, no exceptions. Our pigs will be ready for harvest between 12-14 months of age.
🐽Companion Piglet or Pet Price List
Pet Pig Policy
Companion animals or pets will be sold without breeding rights or registration. We do not sell pet quality pigs often, but will offer undersized runts once in a while.
Since we are focused on breeding larger pigs for pork, bringing home these genetics as a pet, even if it is a runt, has the genetic potential to surprise us and turn into a 300-400 lb. animal.
Unless you are prepared to deal with a massive kunekune, we suggest you find another breeder who does not focus on the 200 in 12 genetics if you want a pet. We can certainly point you towards some good breeders in the DFW area, so please reach out! Otherwise, any runts will be posted to our Facebook page only when they become available.
Pet Price
These piglets will go for $250 with a $150 non-refundable deposit. They will be vaccinated before they leave and males will be castrated, no exceptions. The remaining balance is due at pick up. Pet pigs must be going to a home with other pigs. If you have no other pigs, then another runt will be required to be purchased if we have one available. Otherwise, we can point you towards pigs available for adoption from the aforementioned local breeders.
Join the waitlist for piglets! Deposits are due at contract signing and date of reservation.
♂️Our Boars
We currently run one boar, Kai, on our females. He is from K5 Farm in Oklahoma, bred by Melissa Knox. While the K5 herd is primarily conformation and show focused, they do bring in a lot of pigs that have 200 in 12 genetics. Since our primary goal is pork production, we seek out breeding stock that has the potential to reach 200 lbs. by 12 months, has had carcass merit ultrasounds done on the sire and dam, has bone structure to support a large pig late in its life, and can meet our high standards for the dinner plate, including meat tenderness genetics.
🧡🤍🖤K5 Farm Kaitoa (Ru x Tapeka), Our Herd Sire
Kai is our young herd sire out of Mkono's Waylon, Supreme Champion boar and Produce of Sow Champion CAM's Princess Anna. He is already on track for 200 in 12 benchmarks and weighed 27.4 pounds at 8 weeks according to his breeder, Melissa Knox. At 6 months old, he was 150 pounds on the tape! At 12 months of age, he weighed 190 pounds on the scale, a little shy of the goal, but he was also being heavily used to breed our females after we lost our main herd sire, Chum. He was trim and fit and if he had obtained a nice fat cover servicing fewer girls, he would have hit that goal. Since it was a management issue on our part to stay on schedule after losing Chum, we're not ashamed to give Kai a pass on this one as his frame and muscling was on-point for that age milestone. He is sweet as pie and flashy to boot! He also scored a 7 on his Igenity Swine genetic tenderness test! We expect him to be a very good pork program producer for our farm! AKKPS #53458.
♀️Our Foundation Females
All of our females that we have curated at Dos Lobos Ranch all have 200 in 12 genetics or the potential for it, are thick-boned, stout-legged, and sweet tempered. They must be able to farrow easily unassisted to be allowed to continue in our program and have piglets that hit the benchmarks of 200 in 12 through weaning. Many of our newest girls come from pigs that have been in carcass merit programs for other pork producing breeders.
🧡🖤K5 Farm Pebbles (Huanene x Tutanekai), aka "The Specimen"
Pebbles is an absolute doll and a hulk of a sow! Like all of our K5 pigs, she has champion parents! We bought her at the same time that we bought Chum and she has continued to keep pace with him at weigh-ins by just a little bit, and they're only a week apart in age. At 9.5 months of age, she taped at 204 pounds! She was the only one who was terrified to step on that shiny metal scale, so we had to use the tape measure. At a year old, she taped at an impressive 227 pounds! Though she is over-conditioned currently, she is on a diet to slim down some. After she weaned her first litter, she was well over 400 lbs, so we put her on a diet. As of March 2026, she is down to 360 lbs. with a healthy goal of 350 lbs.! Her size is so impressive, she earned the nickname "The Specimen" as in, "this is the sow you want in your herd!" Her genetic test for tenderness with Igenity Swine revealed that she has a score of 9! Like our Dexter cows, a certain allele is needed on the PRKAG3 gene to rise above a 7. She farrowed unassisted for her first litter, but was very confused and frustrated with squealing piglets everywhere! She would jump up thinking that the slightest squeak was her sitting on one and she would start searching for it. It took a bit of help from me to get her to calm down, rub her belly and quietly move piglets onto her to nurse. I swear this girl knows how to count and would count how many of her piglets were lined up on one side to nurse before she would lay back down! Her first litter weaned at 27 (gilt), 29 (boar), 29 (boar), and 30 (boar)! Breeding her to a 7 scoring boar will always yield 7's and 9's on genetic tenderness tests. AKKPS #: 34532
🖤🤍K5 Farm Pua (Trish x Tonganui)
Pua is our sassy back-talker! She doesn't like being road blocked when we drive her from pen to pen. However, she's probably our most clever. When she had her first litter, she was exhausted for days and didn't drink, but kept eating. I was concerned because she was very constipated, so I started giving her Miralax in a syringe. She was so thirsty and so eager to drink, she would sit up, pooch her lips, and get ready to receive every time I said, "drink." She wasn't quite as impressive on the scale and tape measure as she was growing up, but she certainly squeaked in to the 200 in 12 club! She was 150 pounds at 9 months old on the scale and 202 pounds on the tape at 1 year. Given a margin of error for using a tape measure, she probably missed the mark, but got dang close! She scored a perfect 10 on her tenderness genetic test from Igenity Swine! Like Pebbles, she is over-conditioned and is on a diet. At 2 years, 6 months of age, she is 290 lbs. on the scale after a weight loss diet. Breeding her to a 7 scoring boar will always yield 9 scoring piglets for genetic tenderness! AKKPS #35430.
🖤🤍K5 Farm Domino (Trish x Ru)
Domino was a gilt that I just had to have out of Mkono's Waylon! She is half-sister to Pua and half-sister to Kai. She has a little bit of Pua's sass, but has been much faster to warm up than Pua was as a piglet. She's super sweet, and very clever, just like her sister. She was almost 5 pounds at a week old according to her breeder, Melissa Knox. She is on track with Pua when she was her age and taped in at 150 lbs. at 9 months of age. Just like Pua, her Igenity Swine tenderness test was also a perfect 10! Breeding her to her half-brother Kai will give a COI of 15% (coefficient of inbreeding). She is on-track for squeaking in to the 200 in 12 club. Also just like her sister, she scored a perfect 10 on her Igenity Swine genetic tenderness test! Breeding her to any 7 scoring boar will always yield 9 scoring piglets for genetic tenderness! AKKPS #51491.
🤎Cripple Critter Ranch Raven (Rona x Whakanui)
Raven is a proven sow from our neighbor in Jacksboro, Tx at Cripple Critter Ranch Kunekunes. She is actually all brown, but she certainly looks black! She is the one of the sweetest and friendliest pigs in our herd, but also the bossiest to the others! She comes from both a Mkono sire and dam and is very thick boned with stout legs. Though she was not bred or benchmarked as a 200 in 12 program pig, she looked very close to it on her frame when we saw her in person just 2 months shy of her 2nd birthday. We welcomed her first litter on our farm and our last litter out of Chum in January 2026! This girl rocked her farrowing and from the camera we had on her pen, she delivered all of her 10 piglets in just under 3 hours! AKKPS #43667.
🧡🖤Legacy Family Farm Goldie (Wilsons Gina x Tutanekai)
Goldie comes to us all the way from Ohio at Legacy Family Farm. She is out of their 200 in 12 pork program and is an absolute heart steal! She is big and long at just over 2 years old, and arrived here bred and farrowed her first litter 9 in September 2025. She had a perfect, textbook farrowing and had all piglets out in about 3.5 hours. She was 276 lbs. on the scale in November 2026 and keeps her condition easily without being too lean or too fat! AKKPS #36615.
🧡🤍🖤Oogie's Bluegrass Kunekunes Serafina (Kereopa x Mahia Love)
Serafina joined us from Legacy Family Farm in Ohio. She is out of their 200 in 12 pork program and is as sweet pie. She came to us heavily bred and in pig. She farrowed 11 piglets her first litter here in September 2025, though she lost most of the litter in labor and the rest after weaning. The vet felt like the whole litter was compromised due to such a hard labor with two badly stuck piglets. She will be allowed another shot at farrowing in 2026, but all piglets will be retained for our pork program or as feeder piglets for other farms just to make sure we don't have a repeat of what happened with her first litter. AKKPS #36912.
🧡🖤Raising Em Right Lucy (Jenny x Mahia Love)
Lucy joined us from Legacy Family Farm in Ohio along with her littermate sister. She is out of Legacy's 200 in 12 pork program and has the cutest bulldog face on any kune I've ever seen! She weighed 150 lbs. on the tape on her 1st birthday, and 190 lbs. at 16 months of age. While not textbook 200 in 12, she is a very LEAN girl with very little fat cover, but her frame size was there for all the benchmarks. AKKPS #55374.
🧡🖤Raising Em Right Ruby (Jenny x Mahia Love)
Ruby joined us from Legacy Family Farm in Ohio along with her littermate sister. She is out of Legacy's 200 in 12 pork program and the only way to tell her apart from her sister is she has a solid black left butt cheek and longer hair! Just like her sister, her 1st birthday weight missed the 200 in 12 mark at 175 lbs. on the tape, but she is also extra LEAN with very little fat cover. At 16 months of age, she was 179 lbs. on the scale while barely a month bred. Like her sister, Lucy, she had all the right frame size for a 200 in 12 pig, minus all the fat. We welcomed her first litter of 9 in February 2026 and from the camera on her pen, this girl had ALL piglets out in an hour! This babe knows how to use the piglet cannon! AKKPS #55375.
💔Gone, but Forever in Our Hearts
This is a memorial to the pigs that contributed to our program and passed while in our care or were able to live out their years of retirement here. We select our breeding stock thoughtfully, so the ones that left their mark on our herd are memorialized here with their original info placard.
K5 Farm Chumbawomba (Mahia Love x Rona), our herd sire
Chum is a power-house of a boar! Thick-boned, stout-legged, long, and bulky, this boar throws size on his piglets! Like all of our K5 pigs, he has champion parents! He is from 200 in 12 genetics and hit the same benchmarks himself as a weanling hitting 22.2 pounds at 6 weeks old according to his breeder, Melissa Knox! Because we aim for 200 in 12 pigs for our pork meat sales at Dos Lobos Ranch, we bought a scale for our pigs before their 1st birthdays. The scale worked the first time we weighed them, and then it never worked again. At 9.5 months old, Chum weighed in a 195 pounds on the scale! After that, we had to resort to using the tape measure method on our pigs. Though not as accurate, it still gets us into a ballpark range. At exactly 1 year old, Chum measured 255 pounds on the tape! He is an absolute monster. Now over 2 years old, he's just a hair under 400 pounds on the tape. Give or take with the tape measure errors of course, but he is massive! Just like with our Dexter cattle, we use Igentiy Swine to test for tenderness in our pork producers. Though Igenity has not come up with an easy to read scoring system like with their beef program, I called up the lab and they helped come up with a scoring system for the genetic markers on our pigs. Chum scored a 7! This boar is the whole package and is sweet natured to boot. AKKPS #: 34751
