Eggs taking longer by bator vs. broody hen

[australorpchick]

I recently received a bunch of beautiful blue and green EE eggs from Shiningfeather. I put 5 under my broody silkie and the rest went into my friends bator, on the same day. All 5 of the broody eggs hatched last Wednesday and Thursday. The bator eggs started to hatch on Sunday. Does it normally take longer for eggs to hatch in a bator, than by a broody?

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Maybe the bator eggs enviroment was a tad off??? A broody hen is the perfect enviroment for hatching eggs because that is what they do,...but a incubator is a artificial enviroment. It being artificial it can never be quite the same as a broody hen. IMO that is,...