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We have three horsefield tortoises they keep laying eggs ghetto are in an incubator but they never hatch out what am I doing wrong
 

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Welcome to the forum!|

Please post pics of your torts so as to double check that you have a male and a female.
 

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Welcome! I have nothing constructive to add other than that.
 

Peter brown

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A vet who specialised in tortoises sexed them a year ago and confirmed they were two males and one female but he has since retired
 

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We have three horsefield tortoises they keep laying eggs ghetto are in an incubator but they never hatch out what am I doing wrong
Welcome.

1) the incubation protocol is not optimal
2) the eggs are infertile
3) female does not have the nutritional support to lay viable eggs
4) female is too stressed by some factor to lay viable eggs

How are you incubating the eggs, temp humidity?
What kind of incubator are you using?
Are you making sure NOT to rotate the eggs?
How are you determining that the eggs are not fertile or developing?
How long have any of them incubated for?

Great that a vet told you the sex, but I'll work off of my own observation, please post images of the tails/plastron.
 

Peter brown

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Hi will thanks for trying to help me and thanks to everybody who have tried to help me will post pics as soon as I can I am not very good at all this any help and advice is appreciated
 

Peter brown

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Hi will thanks for trying to help me and thanks to everyone else who has tried to help me I will post pics as soon as I can only I am new to all this and not very good at it
 

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