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How Charcoal Can Improve Your Horse’s Gut Health Naturally.
Maintaining optimal gut health is essential for your horse's overall well-being, supplementing its diet with charcoal is the solution

Tom Gregory


Activated or non-activated charcoal?
We are often asked whether our charcoal is activated or non-activated, so we thought it might be useful to explain the difference.

Jim Bettle


Billy The Horse & Dorset Charcoal.
January 2015 This is the first day I had Billy. Only 4 days after he raced! Clare from Hazelbury Bryan... Since Billy had that hiccup of Gastric Colic, he’s now moving off of his ulcer treatment and swiftly moving on to charcoal and he's been fine. He's not on any other supplements, due to delicate nature of his digestive system, except for Dorset Charcoal. He's been a tricky horse regards his gut and it’s been bloody hard. Like two steps forward then a million back! He had t

Jim Bettle


HORSE & RIDER - A natural helping hand for gastric health
We are very pleased to have been mentioned in Horse & Rider magazine. Here's what they said: "The Dorset Charcoal Company’s Granular Charcoal feed supplement helps to maintain your horse’s health and condition by… naturally aiding digestion helping to remove toxins adsorbing intestinal gasses This means it can be a safe, effective way to help reduce feed bills. Made from 100% natural, non-activated charcoal sourced from oak trees grown in sustainable Dorset woodland, Granular

Jim Bettle


Charcoal's digestive benefits for pets and horses.
Blackmore Vale Magazine - 16th November 2016 Although known for supplying top quality, locally made barbecue charcoal, the Blackmore Vale Business Awards Green Award 2016 winner Dorset Charcoal Company has been supplying its fine granular charcoal to animal owners for a number of years. Charcoals benefits to digestion have been known by countless generations and whereas charcoal tablets have been readily available to humans, the animal equivalent has not been so. Charcoal is

Jim Bettle
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