Broken Ground Farm

This summer has just been a touch on the wild side. Unexpected travel. Time away from home. Having sweet loved ones monitor and check in on our homestead while we were away.

We were in the thick of this and a friend posted on Facebook about having Kune Kune pigs for sale. C.N.R. and I were in two totally different places and I messaged him asking if he was interested in finding out more. He said yes and there we go. We are now the proud owners of 3 Kune Kune pigs.

Here is the initial set up we had for them. We ran electric fence around an old garden bed space. The shelter was a cord and a tarp. We held it to the ground with electric fence posts. Inside we spread straw. Ever so humble, but it was their home. The food tray is rubber. That is a 30 gallon water barrel with pig nipples added for ease of drinking. We set it up on scrap wood to make it a bit higher for them. As a fun side note, they will push over water and the fence poles holding the tarp down.

This is our team of pigs. Oreo, the sow. Hank the boar. C.B. the baby. They are laying in a wallow which is the path between two garden beds. Earlier this year we had rented an excavator and made paths between garden beds. The scooped out dirt was mounded up on either side as a bed in which to plant.

Kune Kune pigs are a pasture pig. They will root some, but not to the severity that other pigs root. They have had no interest in eating the tall plants within their paddock. They do like the wallow, pig feed, and head scratches. Hankers will even flop over on his side for belly rubs.

C.B. was about 9 weeks old when we got him. He was very skiddish. A week and a half into his time with us, he has warmed up a ton. He now walks up to us and will even allow us to pet him.