Re: why are females more expensive?
The reason females tend to be more expencive is because they are as some have already said the greater half of the breeding equation. Both males and females are needed but females tend to be more of a long term investment from a breeding stand point. So breeders tend to price them higher lets the breeder better control the depreciated value of a morph year to year. It makes since as a breeder to price males whith in the reach of the people that want the morph and females for the soon to be or current breeder/investor. Both get what they want.
Re: why are females more expensive?
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Originally Posted by AkivaSmith
Men are as a collective expendable, not as individuals to individual spouses, children, and communties. Women are just too valuable, collectively, to the economy to be sent to war.:salute:
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Originally Posted by dictionary.com
ex·pend·a·ble [ik-spen-duh-buhl]
–adjective
1. capable of being expended.
2. (of an item of equipment or supply) consumed in use or not reusable.
3. considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
4. Military. (of personnel, equipment, or supplies) capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective.
–noun
5. Usually, expendables. an expendable person or thing.
[Origin: 1795–1805; expend + -able]
—Related forms
ex·pend·a·bil·i·ty, noun
Say that we're expendable again. I dare you. Seriously, no human is expendable, ever. Even if you meant def. #4 when you said expendable (which I doubt), I still think that you were out of line with that comment. Women aren't more valuable, they're equal, by law.
Re: why are females more expensive?
I know I couldn't live with out my man! :P And having both a boy, and girl as children, I cherish both of them equally. I would die for my son, that's for sure, not to be morbid. Anyway, back to topic, as some have said, It takes longer to bring a female to breeding size, ( which also = more time and money spent) and are more valuble, money wise,as breeders, so I think that is why they are more expensive, even as babies.
Re: why are females more expensive?
And here I thought we had moved back TOWARDS the original poster's question. :confuzd:
