J & B Oakley Stock Sale 2026

J & B Oakley Stock Sale

85 bidding lots and 87 birds across four parts. Lot 1A (Beauty Skyfall, formerly Lot 2) is FREE with Lot 1. Lot 48A (Sky Dweller, formerly Lot 49) is FREE with Lot 48. The free hens are displayed beside their partners and cannot be bid on separately. Bid on Lot 1 or Lot 48 to receive the corresponding pair.

All parts open Sunday 8 November at 7pm UK. Part 1 closes Sunday 15 November at 8pm, Part 2 at 8.30pm, Part 3 at 9pm and Part 4 at 9.30pm.

From Ben Oakley

My dad started with pigeons the year I was born in 1991 and over the first few seasons learnt the ropes and began to become competitive flying in the Cheshire plains federation. As a young lad I was always keen on the birds scraping out the widowhood cocks and exercising them on return from school every day. In 2011 once I finished my studies I came home to work on the family farm and this is when we decided to invest in the birds and try and take our racing to the next level and compete in nationals. We acquired birds from various sources and joined the MNFC it was an incredibly sobering experience at first as we soon realized that in the main the birds we had around us that were winning at federation level weren’t able to compete with the top level fanciers that were flying in the nationals. This was until 2013 when we found a top hen in “skyfall” to cut a long story short she was a cut above our other pigeons and we decided to stock her. The results quickly began to snowball and it was apparent that she was to be the catalyst to any success that we would have at national level. Over the next 4 or 5 seasons we began to score well up in the nationals but this wasn’t happening with as much consistency as I would of liked. In 2018 I was introduced to Paul of the GWP Macaloney partnership we seemed to share a similar enthusiasm about the sport, a friendship was formed and we brought in some pigeons to cross into our skyfall family. From the moment these crosses started to race you could see that they had added speed to our already hard working family of birds. Since 2019 we have topped the section in the NFC, MNFC, BICC and BBC a total of 26 times. Topping the Shropshire federation 16 times and in 2022 we joined the mid Cheshire federation sending to 7 races topping the south section 3 times and also the open with 2445 birds competing. To sumarise these birds have been raced hard and tested to the maximum with any weak links removed, this has left us with a family that can compete at the highest level be that federations, classics or nationals from 50-500 miles.

Highlights from the last few seasons.

Golden duif winners for the UK in 2023

West section average winners for the last 5 years in the MNFC being runners up in the overall averages in 2024 which has very rarely been done in the west.

1ST Section 1st open MNFC chale Old hens 2025

1st section 1st open MNFC chale young birds 2025

1ST section 4th open NFC Nord sud edre 2026

1st section 6th open nfc messac 2023

1st section 3rd open bicc Guernsey 2023

1st section 3rd open MNFC Carentan 2024

1st section 4th Open MNFC Roulette 2024

1st section MNFC Nord sud edre 2024

2nd section 2nd open BICC Guernsey 2024

1st section NFC Coutances 2020

1st MNFC Ace bird west section

1st section MNFC Guernsey 2021

1st section MNFC Weymouth 2021

1st section BICC Guernsey 2021

1st section BBC Elgin 2021 (the only time we have ever sent North)

1st west section averages MNFC 2021

1st section BBC Guernsey 2022

1st section BBC Guernsey 2 2022

1st section MNFC Chale 2022

1st section MNFC Kingsdown 2022

1st section MNFC Guernsey 2022

This is 1st positions only with many other positions in the section and the top 10 of the open results.

Federation highlights would be taking the first 12 in the shropshire federation from bath in 2021 and taking he first 19 in the shropshire federation from bath in 2022. Also topping the mid Cheshire federation taking 1st and 2nd on only our 3rd attempt with 2445 birds competing. In 2023 and 2024 we broke shropshire federation records by taking the first 30 positions with young birds on two separate occasions. Weve also won the federation gold ring in 2024 and the whitchurch breeder buyer in 2026 winning over 5k

Aside from our own racing loft the feedback from our birds racing to other lofts keeps improving year on year with more federation and national section winners reported in 2026. The comment lads always make is your young birds are hard to lose with often a greater percentage left after the program compared to other kits, scoring along the way.

Unfortunately now I have reached a point in my life where the family farm is as busy as ever with increased responsibility twinned with the fact I have a young family, pigeons are going to have to take a back seat for a while so we are offering our entire bought in stock team for sale, all we are retaining are a small number of our retired flying out racers that we can continue to casually race with on a more part time basis. It’s going to be hard to let go of such a well proven team of birds that have taken a lot of work and testing to put together but that being said it’s even harder to see them sitting their wasted when I can longer get the best from them. This team of pigeons have been put together based on pure racing results and its amazing how you end up with such a fantastic physical type. This in my opinion is no coincidence. Good luck to all bidders I hope you can get the ones you want. Satisfaction assured these birds are in immaculate condition and will be ready to breed early.

Ends: 15 November 2026 21:30