Kunekune Half Hog
Half hogs include on average: 1 shoulder cut (Boston butt), 1 ham (sliced, smoked, and cured into 1 inch steaks), 12 chops (1 inch), 1 side of baby back or country style ribs (butcher's choice), 1 pork belly cuts or smoked and cured thick-cut bacon (butcher's choice), bacon ends and pieces, jowl bacon (butcher's choice), breakfast sausage (mild, medium, or hot; butcher's custom blend), ground pork, 10 lbs of leaf fat (can be omitted and sold back to Dos Lobos Ranch... we LOVE rendering our own lard for cooking or soap making!)
*** Custom orders and cuts other than what is listed above are available with a non-refundable deposit and a signed contract on any half or whole animal. ***
Why Kunekune Pork?
If you've never had Kunekune pork before, you are in for a treat with this truly "craft" pork. Kunekune hogs are a slow-growing breed of pig from New Zealand and are considered a lard breed. When you place a deposit on a hog, you can expect a 12-15 month grow-out period to get the hog from a piglet to a market weight hog of 200 lbs. Trust us food-snobs... it is well worth the wait! Kunekune meat has a subtle, sweet flavor in the background. Some people don't think it's a big deal, but we can't get enough of it! Combine the fabulous meat with the sweet and gentle nature of these pigs that grow well on pasture, and you've got the perfect pig in our opinion! In fact, during our first year of raising hogs in the Spring of 2023, we raised 1 Kunekune and 2 Red Wattle hogs side-by-side on pasture, fed them the same feed, and did a side-by-side taste test. Hands-down, the Kunekune was the superior meat! We hope you love it as much as we do!