Females more expensive than males.

Y is it that females are more expensive than males? I can think of a few reasons but whats the real reason?

Here's the "duh" reason:

Females lay eggs. Eggs mean babies. Babies mean $$. Pretty simple.

Some other reasons I came up with, based on my experience working at a pet store:
- Males seem to be more plentiful than females. I'm not sure if this is a fact overall, but it seems like we get wayy more males in than females. This may also be a result of breeders holding back more females so they can get more babies, and ditching the males because they may already have a few good, proven breeder males.
- Females get larger. In the pet trade, generally, a bigger snake gets bigger bucks.

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Originally Posted by BALLPYTHON

Y is it that females are more expensive than males? I can think of a few reasons but whats the real reason?

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Economics ... Supply and Demand ... The supply of males is greater than the supply of females .... Why you ask? Because a breeder can breed one male to many females ... Therefore all of the breeders out there are buying up females (or holding them back) for their breeding projects and selling males cheaply because they already have enough males.

Hope this helps.

-adam

This is a little off topic but i have herd that females mostly get bigger then males, is this true to an extent?

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Originally Posted by DrEwTiMe

This is a little off topic but i have herd that females mostly get bigger then males, is this true to an extent?

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With some exceptions here and there (like my lemon pastel male) females are generally larger than males when fully grown.

-adam

Do they get larger in respect to the lenth or in terms of width, or is it both.

both.

-adam

ya thats what i though cuz one male can mate with many females so y keep more males if you dont need em.
thanks guys