The hatchery produces the domesticated space rats, but they are not converted to rations by the slaughterhouses. Perhaps this is related to the base bug in which the weapons would not fire? (Supposedly fixed with the last patch, 03/26/12).

Sounds more like the bug last uni where bases were running out of rats erroneously. Can you be more precise in documenting your problem?

Ok, had not been in this T16 base, on an EE26 character since I had posted about this this issue yesterday. Thought it was odd that when I docked there this morning, that there were no domesticated space rats in inventory. I had turned off the Hatchery yesterday to observe the conversion (or non-conversion in this case) to regular rations. The Slaughterhouses are functioning properly today. Which leads me to ask again... is this similar to the base weapons not firing bug? That same weapons bug was temporarily worked around with a server restart before the last patch. Was there a server restart between 10am Sat 3/31 and 10am Sun 4/01 PDT? Oh, and conventional hydros/MRE's have no problems supporting the workers on the base. I had just recently added the Hatcheries/Slaughterhouses to support a slightly larger workforce and reduce the number of hydros being used.

Unless i can repeat or recreate this scenario, or it can be collaborated by others, I wouldn't spend any time/resources on it.