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When getting your birds ready for a show you need to take alot of things in to count, you have got to make your bird stand out from the rest. There is hundreds of classes at some shows, i have just got my entry form for peebles show and it has 300 classes all ranging from  decorated eggs to ladies classes there is everything! You need to do the birds legs making sure that they are the correct colour and also their feet and nails, cleaning out all of the dirt. You also need to check if your bird is the right weight, you must not be able to feel the keel bone and nothing else, you have to feel the keel bone with lots of meat around it. Then you need to look at the birds feathers, to check if they are all looking in the right place and most of all if they look right! Now you look at the birds tail, it must not have any lumps missing out of it. Then you look at the birds head, checking if it has the right eye colour, if the waddles are the right size and also the comb. After you have done this you give the bird a bath in warm(ish) water (you can get special shampoo from the internet, do not use your normal shampoo) try to keep the birds head above the water, as they can get panicky. Then you can let them dry off by them selves, put them in frount of a fire or use a hair dryer. When the bird is dry spray mite spray under the wings and by the back end. If you have  breed with a Rosecomb, get the spray and put it on a cloth then gently rub it into the comb, as they are prone to getting mite in the comb. On arival to the show you can put olive oil or vaseline on the combs and legs to make them stand out.