Meet Our Kunekune Herd
AKKPS Registered Kunekune Breeding Stock at Dos Lobos Ranch
At Dos Lobos Ranch, our Kunekune herd is the foundation of everything we do — from pasture-raised pork to breeder-quality piglets.
We raise AKKPS registered Kunekune pigs in North Texas with a focus on calm temperament, strong maternal ability, 200 in 12 pork-focused genetics, and excellent meat quality.
Our herd is selected for real-world performance, not just pretty pictures. We want pigs that are easy to handle, thrive on pasture, raise healthy litters, and produce pork worth waiting for.
Our Breeding Philosophy
Not every pig belongs in a breeding program.
We believe the best Kunekunes should be:
- calm and easy to handle
- strong on pasture
- good-footed and structurally sound
- capable of reaching practical pork growth goals
- backed by strong maternal lines
- selected for tenderness and meat quality
We are a pork-first program and a breeder-quality piglet program second. That means every animal in our herd has to support the bigger goal for both our farm, and other farms: producing useful, functional, flavorful Kunekunes.
Our Herd Goals
Our Kunekune breeding program focuses on:
Temperament
Kunekunes are known for being sweet, docile pigs, and we want to preserve that. Pigs with poor temperament do not stay in our breeding program.
Maternal Ability
We select sows that can raise strong, healthy litters with good instincts, good milk production, and minimal intervention.
200 in 12 Pork Genetics
We focus on pork-oriented Kunekune genetics with the goal of producing pigs that can reach butcher weight around one year of age with proper care and nutrition.
Meat Tenderness
We genetically test through Igenity Swine and select for meat quality traits that support tender, flavorful pork.
Structural Soundness
Good feet, legs, topline, teat structure, and overall balance matter. A pig may be cute, but if it cannot function well long-term, it does not belong in the breeding pen.
AKKPS Exclusive Breeder
Dos Lobos Ranch is an AKKPS Exclusive Breeder. We register piglets only through AKKPS and maintain accurate records for our herd.
For customers looking for registered Kunekune breeding stock, this provides confidence in lineage, breed integrity, and long-term breeding value.
♂️Meet Our Boars
Our boars are selected for temperament, structure, growth, and the ability to complement our sow lines.
🧡🤍🖤K5 Farm Kaitoa, Our Herd Sire
(Ru x Tapeka)
Kai is one of the cornerstones of our Kunekune program. He consistently stamps his piglets with friendly temperament, strong structure, and the kind of personality that makes Kunekunes such a joy to raise.
Kai is used heavily in our pork-focused program because of the practical traits he brings to the table: calm disposition, good growth potential, and strong farm functionality.
Traits we value in Kai:
- calm, friendly temperament
- strong sire influence
- pork-focused genetics
- good structure
- consistent offspring quality
Kai is our young herd sire out of Mkono's Waylon, Supreme Champion boar and Produce of Sow Champion CAM's Princess Anna. He was already on track for 200 in 12 benchmarks and weighed 27.4 pounds at 8 weeks according to his breeder, Melissa Knox. 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
Our sows are the heart of the herd. A good sow does more than farrow piglets—she has to raise them well, consistently, and without us babysitting. That’s what we select for.
We evaluate our females based on:
- litter size and consistency
- milk production
- piglet growth at weaning
- teat structure and spacing
- temperament with piglets and people
- overall durability on pasture
If a sow cannot raise a litter successfully on her own, she does not stay in the program.
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"
AKKPS #: 34532
Pebbles is exactly what her nickname suggests—a true specimen of a Kunekune sow. Coming from champion K5 lines, she combines impressive size, strong structure, and excellent pork genetics.
She has consistently pushed the upper end of growth for the breed, reaching 204 lbs. at 9.5 months and 227 lbs. at one year, with mature weights exceeding 400 lbs. before being brought back into a more balanced condition. A reduced diet helped bring her back down to a healthy 350 lbs.
Pebbles also brings strong meat quality to the program, scoring a 9 for tenderness with Igenity Swine, making her a valuable contributor to pork-focused genetics.
As a first-time sow, she farrowed unassisted and weaned a solid, consistent litter (27–30 lbs at 8 weeks), showing both strong maternal potential and piglet performance.
Pebbles represents the kind of sow that can advance a herd in both size and pork quality—a powerful combination in a working breeding program.
🖤🤍K5 Farm Pua
(Trish x Tonganui)
Pua played a key role in helping us evaluate what we want in a finished Kunekune hog.
Her offspring have shown us the kind of balanced carcass we’re after:
- good meat yield
- sufficient fat for true lard-breed value
- excellent eating quality
Pua’s line helps anchor the “pork side” of our program.
🤎Cripple Critter Ranch Raven
(Rona x Whakanui)
Raven is one of our standout sows when it comes to performance.
She successfully raised a litter of 10 that weaned consistently around 27–30 pounds at 8 weeks—exactly the kind of real-world productivity we’re looking for.
Raven represents:
- strong maternal instincts
- excellent milk production
- high-performing litters
- reliable piglet growth
She’s the kind of sow every breeding program needs more of.
🧡🖤Legacy Family Farm Goldie
(Wilsons Gina x Tutanekai)
Goldie brings another valuable maternal line into our herd and helps expand our genetic base.
Her piglets are evaluated closely for:
- structure
- growth
- temperament
- breeding potential
She gives us additional flexibility when making breeding decisions across the herd.
🧡🖤Raising Em Right Lucy
(Jenny x Mahia Love)
Lucy represents another valuable Jenny-line female in our herd. Her pairings are selected with an eye toward producing piglets that are functional, friendly, and useful for small farms or pork programs.
Traits we value in Lucy:
- maternal potential
- calm disposition
- practical farm type
- piglets suited for breeder or feeder homes
Lucy has the best feet, legs, and massive hams in any of our females. She's also from carcass merit breeders with a reduced amount of back fat for a leaner, more muscled Kunekune.
🧡🖤Raising Em Right Ruby
(Jenny x Mahia Love)
Ruby is one of our important maternal lines and has produced piglets with sweet temperament and practical farm traits.
Her piglets are evaluated closely for structure, growth, and suitability for either breeding programs or freezer pork.
Traits we watch for in Ruby's piglets:
- friendliness
- growth rate
- teat structure
- structural correctness
- pork potential
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💔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
📋How We Evaluate Piglets
Every litter is evaluated from birth through weaning.
For breeding-quality piglets, we look at:
- teat count and spacing
- bone structure
- feet and legs
- topline
- growth benchmarks
- temperament
- wattle count
- sex traits
- overall vigor
Piglets that do not meet breeding standards are placed into our pork program as feeder or roaster piglets.
That is not a failure — it is the system working to keep the best and eat the rest.
🥩Why We Keep a Pork Program
A good breeding program needs a pork program.
We started our farm to feed ourselves. Period.
It was happenstance that we discovered that the demand for pasture-raised pork utilizing honest practices was in demand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We had the ability to scale up to meet demand to feed local families, and so scale-up we did!
Not every piglet should become breeding stock, and we believe it is better to be honest about that. Our pork program allows us to make hard selection decisions while still feeding local families with excellent pasture-raised pork.
That is why Dos Lobos Ranch is built around both:
- Kunekune pork
- breeder-quality piglets
The pork program keeps our breeding program honest.
🏆 “What Makes Our Herd Different”
- pork-tested genetics
- 200 in 12 focus
- real-world selection
- pasture performance
- temperament-first
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Looking for Kunekune piglets from our herd?
Visit our current piglet availability page to see upcoming litters, available boars, available gilts, feeder piglets, and reservation details.
Reserve Kunekune Piglets from Dos Lobos Ranch
If you are looking for AKKPS registered Kunekune piglets in Texas, we encourage you to join our piglet waitlist.
We serve customers across North Texas, Dallas–Fort Worth, and beyond.
Piglets are limited, and many are reserved before weaning.