The Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand operates a registration scheme for established New Zealand rare breed societies that do not have their own formal breed registries and for other rare breeds that are not represented by breed societies.
Our online search facility has not been updated since 2022 and we are currently looking at how this can be rectified. Nevertheless, it is still available at Registry Search.
The current registration scheme does not require physical inspection of the animals – that is beyond our resources – but each animal must have some form of individual identification such as an ear tag, microchip, or good photographs, and the owner must be able to provide some evidence of the animal’s provenance.
Further information will be posted here as soon as possible.