Show Prep,, Bathing, Feeding, etc (TIPS NEEDED)

[I Love Layers]

Thank you so very much! Does the vinegar go in the second tub?
Show box? As in a box to carry them to the show in(sorry... new)? At this show I am showing a silkie, a couple seramas, and a marans, but my main focus is the seramas.

Yes the vinegar goes in the tub. By a show box I mean a box with everything you need at the show. So anything you might need for last minute touch ups, I usually keep some cash in mine, and any papers you may need.

 

[LilJoe]

Yes the vinegar goes in the tub. By a show box I mean a box with everything you need at the show. So anything you might need for last minute touch ups, I usually keep some cash in mine, and any papers you may need.

I have the box, but nothing's In it yet..

 

[336White Phoenix]

I show a lot of bird and one thing for newer show guys and gals that I always tell them DONT EVER USE PRODUCTS ON THE BIRDS the way I do it is I buy sand 2 or so weeks before the show and once it's dry and in dry mud and they'll clean themselves
I do use louk warm water to clean around the toes and beak and eyes and let them onto a fresh no mud durt run very clean bedding and keep rooster and thehens together together but always sepsrsep from the rest of the flock the day before I could prob go on and on but that's just a few tips

 

[cmom]

After I bathe the birds I hold them for a minute to let water drain off of them then I wrap them in a towel like a burrito. This makes it easy to clean their legs, feet, toe nails, beak, comb and wattles. When I bathe my birds I use silver brightening shampoo and bathe my white birds first then my other colors. The first tub I put shampoo in the water. The first rinse (2nd tub) is water with about a cup of vinegar in the water and the second rinse (3rd tub) is plain water. I have been showing for many years too. This is the way I do it, others may do it differently.

A young girl bought one of my males and got a champion in the youth.

After their baths.

 

[Flamens Farm]

I have never shown any fowl, but this thread has been very informative and interesting. I really learned a lot about cleaning and preparing for a show.

 

[I Love Layers]

The wrapping in towel works so well for birds that don't have a lot of fluff!

 

[LilJoe]

How exactly to you wrap then tightly without them freaking out?

 

[I Love Layers]

This is what I do. I lay the towel out on the ground before hand. I take the bird out of the final tub and hold him away from the towl a bit to allow some water to come off. Then I put the bird on the towel, close to one end so about 5 inches of towel on one side. I wrap that around the bird and then I roll the bird while keeping the towel righy until the end of the towel

 

[cmom]

I wrap them the same way and surprising they really don't struggle. Even during their bath they are pretty calm.

 

[Mosey2003]

A young girl bought one of my males and got a champion in the youth.
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