[HappyHippy]

Get ready for some of the best sausages you've ever tasted Hughesy 

Please report back with dead weights and your opinion on the taste......if you don't mind 

[hughesy]

Get ready for some of the best sausages you've ever tasted Hughesy 

Please report back with dead weights and your opinion on the taste......if you don't mind 

Well the sausages are sure to be top notch because I'll be making them myself!   I will report on friday when I've got the carcasses back. Not sure if they're pure KK as their shape is a bit more like a normal pig if you know what I mean. Longer and not as round looking as some. I'll try and get a piccie before we set off for the abattoir.

[HappyHippy]

Mine are longer and not so round either - there is a huge variation in the size/shape of the breed, that's why I love them so much ! The good ones get earmarked for breeding (not to be eaten under any circumstances  ) the smaller males tend to be the ones sold as outdoor 'pets' and the others that don't make breed standard get run on for the freezer - it's been working well for us so far.

I gave half a Kunekune to my butcher a wee while ago (I'd been telling him all about them - but to him, a pig is a pig - all pretty much the same) and he phoned a couple of weeks ago to say how surprised he was that he could tell the difference between it and other pork, and he was really impressed with the taste too 

You'd probably be hard pushed to make any kind of commercial pork producing venture from them (unless you have lots of acreage) but they are great wee porkers - lovely meat and a joy to keep 

[wendy Scu]

You'd probably be hard pushed to make any kind of commercial pork producing venture from them (unless you have lots of acreage) but they are great wee porkers - lovely meat and a joy to keep 

absolutely spot on!
going back to folks like me breeding them down in size - i have never bred away from the second generation of imports from New Zealand so i think what i have is a pretty good example of what the maoris had


The taller, leggier ones i think you will find are the ones that have been produced in the UK . Hafren pigs were a big meat producer at the start of the kunekunes in UK and i know for a fact that they were bred 'up' in size for precisely this reason

[wendy Scu]

Not sure if they're pure KK as their shape is a bit more like a normal pig if you know what I mean. Longer and not as round looking as some. I'll try and get a piccie before we set off for the abattoir.

i rest my case 

[hughesy]

Well I got the carcasses back today. They've got quite a good fat covering but nothing like the KK carcasses I've seen at the abattoir before. The meat is quite dark and looks good. The fat is also nice and white and firm, ideal for sausages and black pudding. Overall quite pleased considering I got em for nowt! I would say they were abot 80kg live weight at just under two years old.