Don't forget when you see those GORGEOUS white puff balls all the work it took to keep them from getting stained and cleaning them up for a show and then KEEPING them clean until they are judged. Not that you wouldn't need to really clean a blue or black or partridge just as clean, but some...
decide where you draw the line on certain traits. Any birds that don't meet your own guidelines, put them in a different cage or pen. Leave them there for at least a few days to be sure you don't get seller's remorse. Sometiemes if you have a few days to think it over, you realize that one...