Carrs Natural Improvers

Our Message to you

Carr's are passionate about all things natural. Researching and bringing together specific plant extracts from all around the world. This knowledge has been passed down through generations for the purpose of improving health naturally.

The Carr's Natural Improver range is fast becoming recognised as a natural alternative to modern day chemical remedies.

Our aim is to provide our customers with the highest quality in natural resources, which their stock would find in nature if left to their own devices.

The story of how it all began ;

Back in 1992 Simon Carr,the companies  managing director,was involved in building a succesfull bird feed business,concentrating on racing pigeon corns and specialist blends for cage and aviary birds. Having realised that birds and animals could be conditioned with the use of different essential and non essential oils,information that he came across in a hand written book that he found behind a sealed wall in his  farmhouse, the book was written in and around 1865 and is a log of remedies and blends of naturally occuring plant extracts from all around the world,these oils and spices were coming into the country via the spice routes and were readily available,even more so than today,they were the only means of  cure for many ills and problems.

The image above shows the  hand written book hidden for over 125 years .

Simon Carr brought onto the market Ad Herb original,an oreganum plant extract,after trialling  it himself,blending it into his home produced pigeon corn

he paired up 4 pairs of pigeons that his customers gave him to trial the Ad Herb on.Having never kept or raced pigeons before he  guessed at which cock should go to which hen,the birds were put onto the Ad Herb straight away.and reared their youngsters with no problems,He joined a local club, borrowed a clock,and prepared for his first race ,training his youngsters with the help of his regular customers.

His first race with the youngsters was Marlboough approx 165 miles,the first bird came and flew around twice before settelling on the roof, it took 2 mins to get it in, and another 30 seconds to clock it in.

Simon picked up 13th fed in the derbyshire fed 5650 birdage .His freinds at the club  believed that if the bird

had trapped straight away and was timed in quickly he would have topped the fed on his first race.

News quickly travelled about the result and the stuff he was putting in the corn,that soon many fanciers in the area were using ad herb, word quickly spread to Barnsley area and then to the north east and the rest is history.

Ad herb is now used in its two formulas, Original for the corn and pellets and aqueuose for the water ,

"We have now added to our list of products  and have expanded into cage and aviary and rabbits "

"We are proud of the fact that we  were the first British company to marketing oreganum in the form of Ad Herb and that our customer base has grown to an estimated 18000 daily users in the pigeon world".

In 2003  the sales improved to a point that Simon sold off his feed corn business and now concentrates  wholley on his herbal oils Carr's are still the only totally

British company marketing oreganum,