This Saturday’s Annual Orange Poultry Club Show will give people the chance to see that poultry is more than a sandwich filling, with over 530 different fowl species and 1100 different classes being shown.

“I have only 16 fowls now, but at one point I had up to 150,” Mrs Thomas said.

“My birds aren’t rare, but they aren’t plentiful either.”

Mrs Thomas expects the day to be very educational and entertaining, allowing people to see fowls that are very rare in Australia.

“There will be plenty for everyone to see,” Mrs Thomas said.

“It will be one of the biggest shows in a while and with over 1120 classes there will be a lot of birds there that people didn’t even know exist.”

Showing fowls for over 45 years, Mrs Thomas says preparing the birds is very time consuming and requires a lot of effort.

“The most I have showed was 87 at Orange in 1974 and it was a big effort and took three days to get them ready,” Mrs Thomas said.

“To get them ready they must be washed, dried, file their nails, fix any broken feathers and sometimes file their beak.”

Poultry club president Adam Richards said that the day, which begins at 9am at the Orange Showground, is a good opportunity for anyone interested in poultry to come along and ask questions.

“We will be featuring American breeds because it’s the Fourth of July and have an extensive range of uncommon breeds which we hardly ever see in Australia,”.