Kunekune Colours
A guide to the different colours of kunekune pigs
KuneKune Colours
A guide to the different colours of kunekune pigs
To make it easier to register your pigs with the right colour, we have made a colour chart.
Decide which colour your pig is by checking the range on the chart, and then use the corresponding letters. In the case of black and white pig, when the main colour is black with white spots, you would have B/W, if the pig is white with black spots then it will be W/B. In the case of a pig that has three or more separate colours, the abreviations TRI will be used. NB It is common for piglets to have a variety of hairs of differing colours, but only piglets with 3 or more distinct areas of colour should be registered as ‘TRI’.
If for any reason you are still not sure of the colour of your pig, then send a photograph to the registrar and it will be assessed for you.
White/cream with no other colours. The legs and belly are often a lighter colour than the back.
These pigs are completely black with no patches of white on them
This colour has no black patches on it. The ginger can vary from deep ginger to pale ginger (almost cream). They can sometimes have white feet/lower legs and bellies as piglets but are still registered as ginger. Some will also have flecks of white hairs in their coat.
A paler almost cream ginger piglet.
This colour is black or dark brown with lighter (gold or ginger) tips to each hair. Often the piglets appear stripey when young (called agouti) but the stripes disappear as they grow.
Piglet with ‘agouti’ stripes.
These pigs are predominantly ginger with black spots or patches. A black pig with ginger spots is a very rare colour so all pigs that are black and ginger will be under ‘ginger and black’.
Black hair dominant
This is a relatively common colour and includes pigs that are predominantly black with white patches. This also includes brown and white or brown and cream piglets as they do eventually change to black and white as they mature.
Pigs that are predominantly white with black patches. This also includes white and brown or cream and brown piglets as they do eventually change to white and black as they mature.
This is a very rare colour as tri colour pigs have 3 or more distinct patches of differing colours. A ginger and black pig with some white hairs in the ginger doesn’t make it tri colour. Also many ginger or ginger and black pigs appear to have white feet but these normally turn ginger as the piglet grows so this isn’t tri colour either.
Another tri coloured piglet variation
