Why are females more valuable?

Why? Besides the obvious fact they lay the eggs, how come everyone wants to buy females instead of males for their breeding projects?

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You can use the males multiple times per breeding season so you could have less males and breed each to multiple females.

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Originally Posted by Soord

You can use the males multiple times per breeding season so you could have less males and breed each to multiple females.

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This, with a big BUT: When the newest hottest genes come around, males are more valuable for the very same reason.

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Originally Posted by Soord

You can use the males multiple times per breeding season so you could have less males and breed each to multiple females.

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I know next to nothing about the details of snake breeding, but this holds true for breeding all animals. If you have one female, you get one litter/clutch/baby/etc., no matter how many males you have. If you have five females, you get 5 litters/clutches/babies/etc., even if you only have one male. Hence why females are more valuable.

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Originally Posted by shadow reaper

I know next to nothing about the details of snake breeding, but this holds true for breeding all animals. If you have one female, you get one litter/clutch/baby/etc., no matter how many males you have. If you have five females, you get 5 litters/clutches/babies/etc., even if you only have one male. Hence why females are more valuable.

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Not necessarily. While one ball python male can service multiple females (up to 10 for some busy boys!), males of other snake species may only be able to successfully do the job for one or two females each season. For my boas I run 1:2 breeding groups and females get every other year off, so it's 1:1 for a breeding season.

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Originally Posted by bcr229

males of other snake species may only be able to successfully do the job for one or two females each season.

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I did not know that, I knew there were some species that weren't breed happy, like penguins, but I thought all snakes were similar.

For boas, it can take months of courting before the female is receptive, I've done one male to two females before but really a 1.1 ratio is best for them (IMO)