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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 11:50:14 am

Title: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 11:50:14 am

Bill and Ben are both castrated males and are 18 months old. Very friendly and used to dogs, cats, sheep, chickens and children. I'm in West Sussex and I'm asking £100 for the pair which will be donated to charity. Please get in touch if you can offer these boys a home.

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Dan on March 08, 2015, 02:19:17 pm

Just to be clear Wisspy, are you expecting to sell these to someone as pets, or to be slaughtered for meat, or either?


Thanks,


Dan

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 02:32:18 pm

Hi, these are to go as pets and NOT for slaughter.  Which is why I'm donating the asking price to charity.  Thanks

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Roxy on March 08, 2015, 04:19:25 pm

Do hope you find a forever home for your Kune Kunes ......only interest I have had for mine is from people who either want one on its own as a pet, which is not something I want for them, or otherwise, they want to eat them.

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 04:33:27 pm

Thanks Roxy, I had an enquiry for just one as well, according to DEFRA I don't think you're allowed to keep one on its own.  At 18 months I don't think they would make very good meat.  Rescue centres don't seem to want to take them either. 

Worst case is that I will have to see them off to the great pig sty in the sky!!!!

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: fsmnutter on March 08, 2015, 04:40:00 pm

We wouldn't send our kune kunes for meat before about a year old, and we've had fantastic meat from older sows.
I hope you do find a nice pet home for them but if you don't, I'd say the abattoir would be less of a waste of life than the knackery.
Best of luck
Suzanne

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 04:56:09 pm

Thanks Suzanne, I used to raise pigs for meat and found I got attached to some of them.  Ended up with these two kunes but I'm not a stranger to the local abattoir. But, I'm hoping it won't come to that. 

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: The Woodsiders on March 08, 2015, 05:16:13 pm

Good luck Wisspy they really are nice pigs

Title: Re: 2 Kune Kune pigs desperately looking for a new home due to farm sale.
Post by: Wisspy on March 08, 2015, 06:50:42 pm

Thank you x