Hatchers Anonymous *Official Thread*

[LaurenM23]

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lol thanks for the info , i thought everyone could be recovered lol

We at HA make no claims to rehabilitation/recovery. Like the Hair Club for Men, I don't just post the threads, but "I am also a client"!

No, rather, we welcome all sufferers of this "chicken mania" with open arms and heaping doses of enabling...er..."help".

 

[LaurenM23]

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OK, that is just awesome!

A note of caution, however (from someone in the historic restoration field): If it really is a combination of copper and bronze ("brass" is bronze with a higher copper content), it will be highly prone to oxidation over time. It looks to be in pristine condition in the photo, but left on its own without any contact, it will tarnish and develop a patina (darkening to black, then green, then a crusty white over time...think of bronze statues that you've seen out and about). Contact from hand oils will speed this process and make for an inconsistent and unsightly appearance. If the metals are true (not a faux finish or thin plating), it will not look like that for long. Contact with water (or humidity) will speed the process even further. Left untreated, the surfaces will develop what is called "bronze disease", where the corrosion from natural (and sped up) oxidation builds up and begins to consume the metal surfaces. Aside from literally eating this thing out from under you, I'm not sure how that might impact hatching in terms of contaminants.

These surfaces can be treated and maintained to hold the oxidation at bay, but this will prove to be a labor intensive and potentially costly process. I am happy to give you the particulars via PM, if you are interested. I will say, though, that the chemicals necessary would also be of concern.

It is an absolutely gorgeous piece, but I would very much recommend confirming the types of metals used in construction and what steps have been taken to maintain those finishes before jumping in to its use. Good luck!!!

 

[Wynette]

Lauren, wowza! You know your metals!

That is one beauty of a bator, though. Looks like it would hold hundreds of eggs......

 

[-Mr.HenryRooster]

Hello my name is Henry and i cant get my face out of the bator window.Today is day 21 on my first hatch no movement nor sounds . Needless to say i am bitting my nails temp at 100 hum 70% all good eggs maby they just want to watch me suffer.Even without seeing my first hatch I know this will turn into years of Relapse

 

[LaurenM23]

haha Why thank you, Wynette. 'Tis my job...literally.

chickenguru I believe I have found your item and further photos. There is a close-up of the cabinet interior that shows the bottom well (under some copper-colored mesh). In this photo, if you look closely, you can see a greenish blob...this is the oxidation (green patina) from water laying. I can see a few more spots in there, as well. The overall consistency of the finish is really good...particularly considering it is being sold "as is", suggesting that the seller has taken little effort in restoring or maintaining the item. There is a generalized deepening of the copper color, which suggests age and oxidation, but very little in terms of corrosion, from what I can see. The handles are definitely bronze. For the money, I would certainly give it a shot!

I am also a little skeptical of the thing being truely made of copper. Copper is a VERY soft metal, prone to bumps and dents...and stretching. Making little wire shelves of copper doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as it has little weight baring strength. I am hoping that you luck out with one gorgeous bator that looks like copper, but is made of something much stronger and requiring alot less work for you. Please let us know how it works out!

 

[Wynette]

LAUREN!!! CHECK YOUR PMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pemburu]

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OK, I understand now... all are welcome, but some (not to mention any names) would be like Mr. Clean as a client for "Hair Club for Men".

 

[LaurenM23]

YES!!!

Well played...

 

[Sumatra503]

That incubator is way too big for someone with a Hatching addiction. LOL

It is quite a beauty, though. Makes me jeolous just looking at the picture.

I look at it and drool and wish I had one too.

My bator is advertised to hold 100 quail eggs and about 60 chicken eggs. If I ever had it that full, which is packed to the edges and then some, I'd have a serious problem!!

I've had 15 goose eggs, 10 duck eggs, and 20 quail eggs all in there at the same time. It was crazy!!!

Candled yesterday, but dropped the first egg. It was viable and the poor little thing died. I feel horrible.

 

[gryeyes]

I'm going to go home to a weak chick that cannot stand at all. It was the very badly shrink-wrapped one from two days ago, maybe even 3. Well, it pipped 3 days ago. It's been out of the shell two days now. I had to wash it off, due to the gunky sticky stuff glueing down its feathers. I even put it into a small cup, and it cannot stand at all. I gave it sugar water, talked baby talk to it, rubbed its little thighs and chest and back with a gentle forefinger, but it just lays there, peeping. Sometimes it stops, after I get some sugar water down it.

So, if it's still alive tonight when I get home from work, I am going to have to kill it. (No reason to sugar coat it and write "cull it.") It breaks my heart. I have read other threads about how to do it the most humanely possible way, but it isn't going to help me deal with doing it - at my hands.

This is the ugly side of the hatching addiction - the ones that shouldn't have hatched, that did, even though I thought *I* had shrink-wrapped it through some mistake, and that I could rectify that mistake.

Sumatra, I am so sorry you lost a viable chick, too. This is the sucky part. I hate the sucky part. It's one thing for eggs NOT TO HATCH, and another whole thing to have something living that dies.