Why are female morphs more expensive than male morphs?

It seems like all female morphs are more expensive than male morphs.
Sorry if this sounds like a noob question but I just hopped in to breeding.

You would think that all the males would be more then the females due to the fact you can breed a male morph to 10normal females in a season compared to breeding the female morph only once a year.

I'm with you on the new to breeding thing, the price makes no sense to me but oh well..

Females are the ones who produce the eggs, if you breed, you normally have many females to produce more clutches, you don't need many males to circulate around the females. So females normally cost more.

UNLESS it's a new morph, and then males who grow up to breeding age faster than females start to cost far more than a female who'll take three years to grow.

It's all in the supply and demand.:gj:

Because females are worth more. You can breed one male to several females, therefor you really only need one male.

If you had 5 males and 1 female you would only get 1 clutch, on the other hand, if you had 1 male and 5 females you would get 5 clutches. Make sense?

Thank you all !

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Originally Posted by bman123

You would think that all the males would be more then the females due to the fact you can breed a male morph to 10normal females in a season compared to breeding the female morph only once a year.

I'm with you on the new to breeding thing, the price makes no sense to me but oh well..

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But you only ever need to buy one male from a breeder, where you have to keep coming back for females ;)

does that mean human women are more valuable too :D

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Originally Posted by katia

does that mean human women are more valuable too :D

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Yep :P

Female women are worth more,

males are supposed to buy us the big, expensive diamond rings for our ring finger;)

Also, breeders know the value of a female, and often hold back many of the females that they produce to be future breeders - most of us are our own #1 customer!

So, while we're holding back our females for ourselves, there are less females available for those wanting them.

This has pretty much been mentioned but being a finance guy, I'll put it in simple economics. The higher demand, the higher the price. You need more females so demand for females is higher which means their price is higher. I'm not sure why this isn't the case for a few morphs but it is the case for most.

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Originally Posted by Hypnotic Exotic

This has pretty much been mentioned but being a finance guy, I'll put it in simple economics. The higher demand, the higher the price. You need more females so demand for females is higher which means their price is higher. I'm not sure why this isn't the case for a few morphs but it is the case for most.

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The only time this isn't the case is with a new mutation. When there are only a handful of a new mutation (like Matt's GHI for example) the males will be more and less males are released, because a male will be ready to go sooner than a female.

A female will be less, because it will take at least twice as long for the female to be ready to go and start replicating herself.

Eventually, as more become available in the market, the pricing shifts to the female being more than the male.

BG thinks it's sexual discrimination. BG is gonna sue.:D

Search BG's thousands of posts, he has the reason in there somewhere. Looks like some people may have stole his thoughts on this thread though. Smart people by the way.;):D:D:D

Not all females are more, higher end co-dom morph males go for more. They can breed so much sooner and pass on their genetics quicker. That quickly can change.

Recessive females always have a bid, you need them to get your visual phenotypes.

Look at whats for sale on the two big web markets, its 80% males. That sorta speaks to it. The difference is probably only going to get bigger.

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Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany

Female women are worth more,

males are supposed to buy us the big, expensive diamond rings for our ring finger;)

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arent all women females?? :P