THE Warwick Showgrounds were bustling with people as an eager crowd gathered for the Warwick Poultry Club auction on Saturday morning.

Wayne Harrison was among the poultry enthusiasts who turned out for the auction, looking for hens to breed.

"I'm after mainly Indian game fowl, and others like the Orpington breed," Mr Harrison said.

"The Indian game are a more docile breed, and I've just bred them all my life."

Hailing from Mungindi on the New South Wales border, Mr Harrison said he often travels to different towns looking for chooks to show.

"I breed my own, and try to bring in different blood lines, which is what you'll do to get a better show look about them," he said.

"I've been doing it since I was a kid, just chook breed - this is my sport."

Mr Harrison said the Warwick auction had good prices, which is an incentive for enthusiasts considering some birds can sell for upwards of $100.

Despite the expenses involved, he advocated for poultry breeding. "This is the first time I've been here, and it's pretty cheap," he said.

"It's a bit of fun for kids, but you've got to be interested.

"It can be fairly expensive when you travel a fair bit.

"It's not really viable for production when you can buy chooks and eggs at the shops for pretty much nothing, but people enjoy doing it."

Look out for more on the annual Warwick Poultry Club auction in the Bush Telegraph in tomorrow's Daily News.