Yes, upright in an egg turner. We got a tip from our breeder not only to let them rest upright for 24 hours before starting, but to keep them upright and unmoving the first 48 hours in the incubator before starting the egg turner. I am pretty confident that this has helped our potential hatch rate, given that last time we still had mobile air cells at this stage and at this point I don't have any mobile air cells in any of the eggs that have progressed to day 14. A a couple of the ones that I pulled with blood Rings last night still had mobile air cells, but nothing like our first batch of shipped eggs which had mobile air cells in at least a third of the eggs still at this point.
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when you see the veins fading and falling apart and the little embryo moving less and less. It's Day 8 and I know there's something recognizable in there but I won't be opening it up. 
I roll failed eggs down squirrel holes in the field and cross my fingers that they rot and explode. If you can't tell, I have a real Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner relationship with the ground squirrels here.
