Why are females more valuable?

[bcr229]

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.

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.