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Natural Handmade Soaps

Hi, I'm Liz, welcome to Eight Acres. I live on a small farm in Kumbia, Australia, with my husband, Pete, and our dogs Taz and Gus. This website started off as a blog for sharing all the things we make and grow on our small farm. We keep a small herd of beef cattle and a few dairy cows. We also have lots of chickens, bees and a vege garden.

Now as well as sharing what I'm learning, I can share what we make through our virtual farmgate (online shop), where I sell natural handmade tallow soap and raw chemical-free honey and beeswax.

If you want to find out more about what we do on the farm and where these products come from, you can read more in my blog, follow any of my social links or send me an email, I'd love to hear from you. Please join my mailing list, then you'll never miss an update from Eight Acres.

Incubating chicken eggs and brooding chicks

Jan 23 2015 0 Comments Tags: brooder, chicks, incubator

We just hatched 24 chicks in our incubator! They are so cute when they first hatch.

Here's some photos of our latest hatch and a few posts explaining how and why we hatch chicks:

Incubating chicken eggs - there are lots of factors that affect hatch rate, here's how to get the best results from your incubator

Caring for baby chicks - how to set up a brooder box, feed and water for your chicks

Raising chickens for meat and eggs - which breeds we use and why

Why do we have so many chickens? - explaining how we pay for our chicken habit by selling eggs

Taz demonstrates the dog-proof brooder box

Have you hatched or raised chicks? Any tips to share?

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