";s:4:"text";s:2613:"Karen breeds Kunes for meat so thay do have good length – rather than being short and round bodied. . There are a huge range of products available to help you get started, from sausage casings to brine mixes, with online sellers offering an array of flavours and accessories. Their name means "fat and round" in Maori. An often misunderstood factor is the percentage of fat on a piece of pork. They also produce fine lard which can be used in cooking, baking and soap making. Pigs fall into two types: Meat (or Bacon pigs) and Lard pigs. When purchasing "pigs on the hoof" we will take your pig to the custom butcher in Farmville, VA for you (or your choice within 1 hour drive) and the pork can be done to your specifications. Good quality fat lends flavour to sausage, bacon and dried meats. Ours are pets, so I can't speak on the taste side of it, but IMHO the person who told you to stave them for a couple of weeks doesn't seem to have much regard for welfare issues. They also make excellent quality meat. In New Zealand Kunes came very close to extinction in the 1970s. The farm was started by the Haas family in 2017 to produce meat with the highest possible nutritional profile and outstanding taste. I'm sure I couldn't deliberately starve an animal and watch it fret through hunger and be misearable for a couple of weeks simply to cut down on fat that can be removed after killing. The meat and fat quality of the Kunekune lends itself well to charcuterie. Guide to Kunekune Pork ... Homegrown Pork (Storey, 2013) by Sue Weaver offers an outline on successfully raising pigs for modern backyard meat using humane and healthy techniques. As a heritage breed, the KuneKune meat is RED and deeply marbled, almost like fine steak. We bought two Kunekune castrates from Yonderton Rare Breed Pigs for £90 each. KuneKune Pork is a marbled red meat with a nice ratio of fat to meat. Our two, Ant and Dec, were farrowed on 28 th January 2013 and we picked them up on 25 th April.