Pre-conditioning stage is when breeders or cockers prepare the fowls for the game. These are the notable activities during pre-conditioning:

• Put the candidate birds to perfect flesh before they enter the keep
• Identify the ideal fighting weight of a specific gamebird
• Sset time to prepare candidate birds by deworming and delousing
• Gve owner ample time and judgment in selecting the final line-up for the keep through sparring.