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I do agree with this. I know it's hard, and maybe you can get away with pipping the egg for them and letting them breathe and see what they do from there, but helping them out can be bad. I do it in certain situations, like when a chick is shrinkwrapped or when it's just so big and healthy it's...

I never hatch upright. I incubate upright, but I lay the eggs down on their sides to hatch. Interesting, there have been studies done that show that the chance of some malpositions is actually higher when they are incubated in the traditional horizontal position as opposed to vertical. Kind of...

Great that you have at least one! I just candled my eggs (done the newfangled way in an expensive incubator :P ) and they are all still coming along, despite my incubator bulb blowing in the night and the incubator getting down to 70 for who knows how long. My hatch date is the day after yours...

It might be too early to really see anything anyway, since the lower temperatures most likely slowed down embryo growth, especially since we're not really positive when it got cold. So they could be a bit behind.

This is a neat experiment! I read a study they did once, and I wish I could find it, but it showed that a broody hen on average turned or fussed with her eggs something like 57 times a day :ep I'm gonna have to look for it.