These New Zealand piglets are called “Kunekune,” a Maori word meaning “fat and round.” We prefer the term “Kunekunekune,” which is an ancient word we just made up that means “fat and round and cute and OMG my brains just turned to pudding somebody get a paper towel they’re oozing out my ears blarrggtth…”
More fatness and roundness at The New Zealand Kunekune Association.
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OMG!!!! *ded*
How adorable, these portable piglets <3
Yeah, that’s definitely a messy one.
More fatness and roundness at my house! (not cute piggies though. Just me.) Love the cute piglets!
Wow, mama…
WANT. NOW. GIMMEKUNEKUNEKUNE.
Those piglets are of course adorable!!!! but I like that fun mom pig, too. Her ears seemed sort of too big for the rest of her head.
hold on a sec….do they have little jowelly pouches?
this would be a great commercial for paper towels, NTMTOM.
i think that’s “strolling in a wee piglet parade,” by vince guaraldi, isn’t it?
This entire post, the text and pigs, just killed me dead.
Not only are these New Squeeland pigs cute, they’re also literate. They write short poems known as haikunes.
@260Oakley, Ha! I saw Haiku when I looked at this as well…good one.
And What Is Up with those flesh pouches on their jaws??
jocelyn: wattles aren’t just for roosters. Some kinds of pigs and goats have them, too.
Ooh, they are called wattles!? Oemgeee!! so cute!
Thanks for the info that’s made my day Xenophon!
Those are the furriest piggies I’ve ever seen! Sooo cuuuute!
They have little boobies on their chins!
How odd is it that I also found Mrs. Momma Piggy cute in her own comin’-at-cute-from-the-other-side kinda way?
And, um, from the amount of brain puddles on the floor, I don’t think paper towels are gonna cut it. I’ll go find the wetvac…
i want the black one.
are those chin nipples?
There Pickwick pigwigs.
I, em, prefer them small. Mom is somewhat, em, grotesque-looking, methinks.
Teh peegs are too cute!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEE! I must move to New Zealand ASAP to be near this cuteness!
They are too adorable!
Except for the chin nipples. They are kind of freaking me out…
they call them tassels. there aren’t too many breeds of pig that have them. (i was reading up)
I know Mom is kind of – well, coarse looking, I guess – but … I dunno. She reminds me of the pig who was competing with Wilbur at the fair in Charlotte’s Web. Was his name Sarge?
I like the third one that just stroll in…
Qte or weird?
I hate to tell you this kids but your mama is pig ugly
The fact that these fuzzy piglets are sporting the ELF EARS of DOOM sort of makes up for the unfortunate chin nipples….well, almost. What is the purpose of such things on their necks, I wonder?
Headline: “At Last: Fat and Round Pigs!” Because I have totally had it with those stick-skinny pigs!
OMG!!! They are so plush! I didn’t expect the fur. (Or the chin dangles…) But I LOVE the ears.
Hi kune, matata.
Wheee! I sent this link in last night – I can’t be the only one who saw these fuzzy chubsters on fark.com, can I? I want to give one a belly rub.
They are little watermelons with legs and snouts!
Wattles? Pah! They have chin-nipples.
It’s all the rage.
Awwww, cyute peegies: then you see the proto-boar adults who will hunt you down the Kiwi mountain sides, grunting like bristly Cro-Magnon death . . .
Nifty 19th-century muttonchop [porkchop?] sideburns, though, even on the young-uns.
I’ve wanted a kunekune for freakin’ years. One day I will have the space for a few (million). Yay to be living in NZ!
Groïnk!!
They had these at the Orange County Fair-a whole stable of them!
“an ancient word we just made up.” lolol
these piggehs are too cute. and whats up with the straight tails? straight tails on peegs?? has the world gone insane??!?
“by the hair wattles on my chinny chin chins” (or sumpfin like dat) These little guys could blow the wolf’s house down!
Gorry, that’s a keepah! An’ wicked cute! From away? Kunebunkpork? Ayuh!
….fuzzy? Check.
….portly? Check.
….porcine? Check.
ok peeps, but what about the WOBBLINESS of the laigs?? Esp the little one feedin’ at mom…one leg pointing east, the other leg pointing west ….
The dainty little shake at 19 seconds!!!
Urrmmm…fury little watermelons with Ewok ears!!!!!!
OK, yeppers theyre super cute. And round.
But WTF is up with those weird nipply looking things under the chins?!?!?!?!
@a well wisher: a whole stable of them (said in an awed whisper)! How did you keep from climbing in with them?
They can weee-weee-weee all the way to my house if they wanna! Too qte!
OMG – they are Hobbits! The sideburns & ears gave them away.
Cute as hell, but chin-nipples? I…I dont even.
i’m changing my name to kunekunegrammafinn-*snerk*
love the sprightly “music to nomnomnomnom by”, oops, need to throw a few more nomnomnoms at that, can’t have an even number.
Eeee I love Kunekune piggies!
I so want some for my farm ^-^
Mighty cute but, sorry, only if you turn blind eye to the deformed hind legs of the little peegs (especially the first one in the video). Same thing happened to many folks breeding tiny horses and began to get weak splayed legs on them. Mess with mother nature and one often gets these strange, sorta-cute, little freaks. A responsible breeder would stop this line and go back a few generations and start over where the legs were still good and strong. American Quarter Horse breeders also experienced a bad side effect of breeding bulldog type show horses, they got teeny weeny feet, and had to stop the lines and do a do-over, and they did. No more bulldog types with teeny feet. And the quality of tiny horses has improved over the last few decades too. Let us hope the same is done with these little peeg-darlings…….
@Naturalady
>>Mighty cute but, sorry, only if you turn blind eye to the deformed hind legs of the little peegs
not to spoil your fun, but a quick trip to the breeder association web site could have saved you the trouble of posting this nonsense.
those are some cute lil’ piglets!
The furriness is what got me.
What is up with the chin udders?
@Naturalady. I get your point. Really. But in the here and now, should I not squee like a fiend at the cuteoveload? The moment, I take it….
Fuzzy neck nubbins. That’s all they are.
ya know, if you tied a sardine to each of those, they’d be nuggified fish porklets.
see.
@freetomato – yes please, lets do squeeeeeeee. Those peegs are darling to be sure. Fiending is truly fun. And cuteoverload is priceless to be sure.
But those chin thingees are kina creepy, no?
Fat, round AND fluffy!!!
OH MY FREAKIN GOD! COW PIGS! It is too much for my heart.. I .. die.. from.. cute x_x
Go away bot sandra!! No one will go to your stupid site!
Road trip to NZ! I call shotgun…
Omg omg! They make me smile with their cute fatness
They look like they could use some hugs 
I know the full-grown kunekunes are perhaps an acquired taste in cuteness, but I guess I wanted to stand up for them because that’s why so many pot-bellied pigs ended up at animal shelters once they were adults.
Wait a minute — if kunekune is the Maori word for fat and round, then I deduce that the Maori word for fat must be kune, while the Maori word for ’round’ can only be kune. What sort of silly language is this? Are there are any Maori-speaking C.O.ers who can provide enlightenment?
Oh, cute peegs, though, and highly appropriate musical accompaniment.
Chin nipples? Well, nipple wasn’t exactly the body part I was thinking when I saw those things, but… uh… Ok, we’ll go with that, since this is a family-oriented site.
They’re so FLUFFY!
In Maine there’s no ancient word, “kune”, but there’s an ancient word, “cunnin”. Usually preceded by, “wicked”. Means, “How cute! Squeee!”!
Y’know, Maori, Maine, ehhh whatevs!
Umm… what’s with those weird “chin nipples”… ????
Are they planning to go on the Maury Povich Show with their extremely bad case of Nipples-on-Chin?
From the Kunekune website: “The tassels, or pire pire, are about 4cm long and hang from the lower jaw. Not all Kunekunes have tassels, as although it is a dominant gene the population contains a proportion of pigs without tassels. Occasionally piglets may be born with only one tassel, or sometimes they are not well attached and can be lost through injury. Breeders usually prefer to use only tasselled pigs for breeding, as breeding non-tasselled pigs increases the percentage of offspring without tassels. When a tasselled Kunekune is crossed with another breed, the offspring will be tasselled – so not all pigs with tassels are pure Kunekune.”
Cheen neeps gots ta go! Otherwise I’m all over their round fatness!
Kunekune, do I gots a new nickname??
@Naturelady:Ii think the tiny b&w piglet featured in the video is just very young. It has a general wobbliness about it that remind me of very young puppies and kitten too. It may just be that it’s still building the muscle strength to support itself and walk.
If you read the website linked below the video, they seem pretty firm about breeding healthy pigs. There’s even have a page about why they can’t/won’t breed teacup versions of the Kunekunes. I think these are just naturally short pigs.
Not by the wattles on my chinny-chin-chin.
Errmmm.
Nottle by the wattles on my chinny-chin-chin.
meh.
Lu-u-u-u-u-u-urve the leetle pink tongue of the all-black piglet who takes breathing breaks during feeding time! [sigh of deep contentment]
The one with the side-whiskers could be ‘Cornelius Vanderpig…’
Bleep! Blorp! Smooch.
Words cannot express how glad I am that I am not a momma pig. Ouch!
@Naturelady: FROM THE BREEDER: You probably have good intentions, but in this case have no idea what you are talking about. I shot this video, these are my Kunekune’s. They are less than a week old and not yet formed properly at all. The smallest one is actually a runt and, although cute, not in very good healthy condition. She eventually had to be bottlefed as she wasn’t putting on weight – we sold her as a pet with the condition that she wasn’t used for breeding. They are only palm-sized at birth but grow quite large. Proper farm livestock. Not house pets. Kunekune pigs were on the verge of extinction until the last remaining 8 pigs in New Zealand were rescued and a breeding program started back in 1978. Going back several generations to “start again” is not possible.
@jared
did you say … (okay, just breathe…) PALM-SIZED?! as in, a pigletlet?! WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE GIMME GIMME GIMME TEENEE PEGGEH!
tassels?? Tassels!?!
Excellent.
@Sharpy – LOL – yes, palm sized for about 2 weeks. At 10 weeks old when I usually wean and sell them, they would be the size of a regular cat – but a lot heavier. At 2yrs old, probably about a meter long and around adult knee height. Currently we have a big problem with people in New Zealand buying them without proper land to care for them & once they get too big – then they are put up for sale or abandoned – poor things. Some people are trying to line-breed so that they stay small, there is an article about this current situation here: http://kunekune.co.nz/miniatures.html
@jared
that sounds familiar… poor little peegs. your site made it clear that they grow up and out of that teeny phase, but then you’d have to rely on people being able read while squeeing. but they are so cute!
i wonder why people don’t see a teeny octopoose and want one for their very own?
The video has been online for about a year and had around 350 views, then Ellen Degeneres listed it on her website at http://ellen.warnerbros.com/ – It’s had 27,000 views in less than 12 hours!!! Wicked!
Makes me want to move to New Zealand and raise tiny, round peeglettes!
@Sarah: OK, Kunekune have pire pire. Got it.
@ant man bee
Many languages, especially Polynesian/Pacific varieties, assign different or more extreme meanings to a word when the main syllable is repeated. So if “meh,” for example, were to mean “boring,” then “mehmeh” could mean either “mind-numbingly dull,” or “to be bored.” The repetition could change the word from a verb to a noun or adjective, etc.
“Kune” in Maori means “to swell” or “to be plump.” So “kunekune” both increases the degree (VERY plump) and changes the word from a verb to an adjective to describe the animal in question.
Here endeth the lesson.
@mathasaurus
oh, i believe that you are talking about an entirely new way to discuss teh qte!
*ahem*
“why that little duck but is making me dedded!”
“my, isn’t that angora rabbit fuzzfuzz?”
“and golly, those kittens sure have a lot of “boingboing” in them!” or would that be “that mama cat gave birth to a boingboing!”
or like the plural of “box” is “boxen.”
Must have these adorable babies. They make things all right in the world.
@Mathsaurus: Amazing Polynesian erudition!
first little weeble gotz da wobbles!
i still have faith in humanity, rescuing these gems from the brink of extinction,
yay peeps!
Oh no…
oh no no no no… floppy ears, shaggy fur, spots, wrinkly nosie, stubby feet, “I have too many feet”-bebeh walk…
… DED.
The music could not have been any better! Reminds me of the New York Sweet Millions commercials.
The rootin’, nursey nursin’ made my ever lovin’ toes curl!
Well they certainly are adorable when they’re still leetle! Not so much grown though.
They’re sweeties!!!
Good on you, breeder, for putting down an ignorant person with such pure informational panache! It’s a good thing you’re doing, both for these animals and in a way for the cultural heritage of NZ.
And Sharpy, **I** saw that octocutie and immediately began trying to calculate the cost of a saltwater tank
@Theresa and Sharpy:
Glad to be of service, ma’ams.
(Actually I have no clue if Shar-Pei is a ma’am or not, but I’ll run with it).
sooooo cute ;D
Oink-oink!! This is my first time viewing this vid. So Cute! Why do they have udders on their necks? Does milk from a neck udder taste better than milk from a tummy udder? I haven’t read the comments for this one (excuse me for that!) but I have a feeling this one started a commentriversary?
i’ve had such a crappy day. these happy peegs put a smile on my face, and the music is so perfect!
squeeeee!!! My hometown in NZ has a petting zoo with a couple of these peegs and you can pet them and scratch them under the chin and they will snorfle your hand with their pink noses. So cute!!! And my uncle has just got one on his farm and she is the cutest leetle thing.
@Jen
I have a kunekune (pronounced coonie-coonie) and she started out with a straight tail when she was born up until a few months ago. Her tail started to curl at about 6 months old.
Why, oh why?!? NOT FAIR!!! Why is it that rotundness is cute on these babes and never on meee?
Those were my pigs at the Orange County Fair! I am happy that I was able to share them with so many different people. These pigs are the absolute best breed in terms of temperament, but they are not pocket sized pigs, ha!
Check out my website at http://www.USAKuneKunes.com. We do “piggy parties” as well as sell our pigs to folks who wish to breed them or just to keep a small pig in the yard. Thanks for your interest in the KuneKune Pig breed.