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We had two kunes for years - unfortunately the last one died a few months ago.
Bought a couple of kune kune cross pot bellied to replace a couple of weeks ago.
They are so small they can escape their enclosure so they are currently in an aviary. Right near the back door. So every time you go out of the door they squeal, like Pigs, for food.
Probably my favourite of the various animals we have had.
Bought a couple of kune kune cross pot bellied to replace a couple of weeks ago.
They are so small they can escape their enclosure so they are currently in an aviary. Right near the back door. So every time you go out of the door they squeal, like Pigs, for food.
Probably my favourite of the various animals we have had.
Never ever again will i do that. Ten of them went to do tv and film work what was interesting. desolate said:
We had two kunes for years - unfortunately the last one died a few months ago.
Bought a couple of kune kune cross pot bellied to replace a couple of weeks ago.
They are so small they can escape their enclosure so they are currently in an aviary. Right near the back door. So every time you go out of the door they squeal, like Pigs, for food.
Probably my favourite of the various animals we have had.
Mine are in the stables over winter and they are always on their back legs looking over the stable door. Bought a couple of kune kune cross pot bellied to replace a couple of weeks ago.
They are so small they can escape their enclosure so they are currently in an aviary. Right near the back door. So every time you go out of the door they squeal, like Pigs, for food.
Probably my favourite of the various animals we have had.
Not Junes, but my ex used to have a Berkshire Black. Her parents lived in an old farm house, and although most of the land and buildings had since been sold off, the house had a courtyard, barn and a large pigsty. So she decided that they needed a pig to live in the sty...
She bought it as a runt of a litter, took it home in a cat box and house trained it, or at least had a scullery/boot room with a hay floor that it would go in and could be hosed out easy.
After a few months it was the size of a large dog and went to live in the pig sty, but also had the run of the court yard. It would eat anything, but had a lot of personality - like nudging the shovel towards you when it wanted its sty cleaning out, or often when we were pouring out sow nuts into it's trough, it would give us a shove so we'd spill more of them from the sack. Given it was the size of a large sofa, and weighed about 300kg, it wasn't easy to reprimand it...
It was also very territorial about it's court yard. It recognised my exes and her parents cars, but any time I tried to park mine there it would stand in the middle of the gate and not let me in. Eventually it got used to me, and my car so all was good - until I got a new car, parked it in the court yard and the next morning found the passenger side doors dented, and the rear bumper had been ripped off.
That was possibly the weirdest insurance form I've ever had to complete.
They are fantastic animals.
She bought it as a runt of a litter, took it home in a cat box and house trained it, or at least had a scullery/boot room with a hay floor that it would go in and could be hosed out easy.
After a few months it was the size of a large dog and went to live in the pig sty, but also had the run of the court yard. It would eat anything, but had a lot of personality - like nudging the shovel towards you when it wanted its sty cleaning out, or often when we were pouring out sow nuts into it's trough, it would give us a shove so we'd spill more of them from the sack. Given it was the size of a large sofa, and weighed about 300kg, it wasn't easy to reprimand it...
It was also very territorial about it's court yard. It recognised my exes and her parents cars, but any time I tried to park mine there it would stand in the middle of the gate and not let me in. Eventually it got used to me, and my car so all was good - until I got a new car, parked it in the court yard and the next morning found the passenger side doors dented, and the rear bumper had been ripped off.
That was possibly the weirdest insurance form I've ever had to complete.
They are fantastic animals.
Got a couple of Kune Kune for the kids. They're only small, even when fully grown. Very friendly, what always amuses me is that when they're happy i.e. being given food, or a scratch behind the ears they wag there tails just like a dog does. As others have said they soon get to know "their" humans and are very wary of strangers.
At one stage we were thinking about eating them but the vet reckoned they're all fat, you get a thin strip of meat and about 3in of fat, like old farmhouse bacon used to have. Ok for SE Asian style cooking I guess.
At one stage we were thinking about eating them but the vet reckoned they're all fat, you get a thin strip of meat and about 3in of fat, like old farmhouse bacon used to have. Ok for SE Asian style cooking I guess.
Timmy40 said:
Got a couple of Kune Kune for the kids. They're only small, even when fully grown. Very friendly, what always amuses me is that when they're happy i.e. being given food, or a scratch behind the ears they wag there tails just like a dog does. As others have said they soon get to know "their" humans and are very wary of strangers.
At one stage we were thinking about eating them but the vet reckoned they're all fat, you get a thin strip of meat and about 3in of fat, like old farmhouse bacon used to have. Ok for SE Asian style cooking I guess.
Kune sausages are lovely, i bought some from the breeder of my first two. You do have to be careful how you finish them though down to the fat.At one stage we were thinking about eating them but the vet reckoned they're all fat, you get a thin strip of meat and about 3in of fat, like old farmhouse bacon used to have. Ok for SE Asian style cooking I guess.
Batleyred said:
Mine tend to graze mainly, done a little rooting up but nothing to bad. My sheep and goats do damage to trees though.
As a slight word of warning Kunes are generally grazers but we have had a couple that are full on rooters. They completely f
ked a paddock in two weeks whereas the previous ones would just graze.Thankfully they were temporary rescue ones so they have gone.
peterperkins said:
They really are an excellent way of turning crap grazing/weeds/grass into bacon..
And tomatoes!When we cleaned out the sty at the exes house, we'd pile all the crap onto a large compost heap behind the barn with grass clippings, leaves etc, and over the months her father would dig it into the flowerbeds and stuff.
We noticed a couple of small plants growing from the heap one spring, and over the next couple of months they produced some incredible tomatoes - we think the seeds from our leftovers were eaten by the pig, passed through it complete and were eventually shovelled out onto the heap where they germinated.
I've never washed a tomato so much before eating it though!
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