Conditioning and Cleaning birds for Show!

[CascadiaRiver]

I've got a youth show coming up this Saturday and I'd like to learn how you guys condition your birds for the show. I wanna know how and what you clean them with, where you put them before and after cleaning, when you clean before a show, etc. I have both chickens and pigeons and I've done many shows and gone to fair for the past four years though I'm interested in possibly new ways to go about doing it!

These are the chickens I'm taking to show:

LF Welsummer Hen
LF Barnevelder Hen
B Light Brown Leghorn Hen
B Birchen Old English Game Bantam Hen
B Brown Red Cochin Pullets (x3)
B Brown Red Cochin Cockerel
B Black Cochin Pullet
B Black Frizzle Cochin Hen

These are the pigeons I'm taking to show:

Ice Bar Damascene Young Cock(?)
Ice Chequer Damascene Young Hen(?)
Sprinkle Almond (Spread Almond) Birmingham Roller Old Cock
Spread Blue (Black) Birmingham Roller Old Hen
Opal Birmingham Roller Old Cock
Blue Checker Birmingham Roller Old Hen (I'm not 100% sure of her colour cause her dad is an odd colour lol)

 

[Cyprus]

I do not know if this information will be of help to you, but I have prepped my birds for show before at a friend's house, with his methods.
I've only done it one show season, but here is how it went:
1. Mites and lice treatment (if needed) starting at a two months out (for really bad cases) or a month out otherwise
2. Repeat Mice and Lice treatment two weeks out.
3. "Spa day" 1 week out. This included trimming beaks and nails and bathing. Bathing was in three "stages", first a solid wash in a roughly 10gal bucket with 1 tide pod, next a rinse in clean water, finally a quick dip in a roughly 10gal bucket with a small amount of glycerin (to make feathers shine).
Then wrap the birds in a towel, and blow dry completely once the birds have sat in the towel for at least 20 min.
4. Vaseline on combs (to make them shine) and vents (if irritated from treatment) the night before show.

At the "Spa day" we also plucked any feathers that were too bad for show.

The birds were housed in their normal enclosure before bathing and after mites and life treatment.
The clean birds were put in a freshly cleaned coop/pen until it was time to bring them to show.​