Male vs female pricing

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You also have to remember that with a stud (a horse stud, for example), You can have other people's mares breed to him in a pasture setting or you can collect/freeze/ship his semen. That way you can maximize the number of offspring he can produce. But with snakes, you don't generally do that. You can loan a male out, but you certainly can't collect his semen an artificially inseminate every female. That's what makes females so much more valuable. If you want to breed him to a bunch of females, you have to actually have the females to do so...thus making the cost of obtaining these females so much more.

I tend to agree with this line of thinking. It's primarily because females are much more in demand than males.