Kunes are slightly different from most pigs in that they are fibre eaters and traditionally, scavengers - surviving on very little food. . Adult Kunes will get by on grass alone in spring/summer when there is plenty of grass - they'll like it better if they get a bit of fruit and veg too though
I tend to give 1lb of hard feed per pig, per day for the first year (just to make sure they're getting all the vitamins and minerals they need)
Our adults were out all winter (even in minus 20, the boar refused to come in
) they do need more feeding through the winter if outside and a bit of hay/haylage doesn't go amiss. My field has a bare patch just where they are fed and it does get fairly wet and boggy (but it's fine when it's frozen
)
I would dispute that any pig, if well fed won't root (or root as much) - my 'big' pigs get
plenty of feed and still churn the ground in the smaller pens, though we've just turned them out into 2 acres of meadow, so we'll see how long it takes them to trash that
There's a place in Canada/USA called Sugar Mountain farm and they raise pasture reared pigs (with the addition of dairy by-products to suppliment the protein levels)
If you do a google search you should find it
Loads of info and the guy who owns it is really helpful if you email him.
I'm just off to see the carcass of an 11 month KK gilt which we're getting cut - she killed out at 38Kg and I'm off to check out the fat (or hopefully, lack thereof) I'll report back soon
Karen