Why are females more expensive?

[Adam_Wysocki]

One weird thing though when you look at it from this point of view... if you bred a pastel male to 5 normal females you will get 5 clutches of 50% poss. pastel, whereas one female pastel can only be fertilized by one male normal to produce one clutch of 50% poss. pastel. The male pastel has the ability to pass his genes on in many clutches, whereas the female pastel can only pass her genes on in one clutch. When you look at it this way the males should be more valuable, since they can pass their valuable genes on much more than females.

Still a supply vs demand issue ... there are less females available, so the price is higher. Breeders only need but so many males of any given mutation ... when it comes to females, as a breeder, there is no number that I consider "enough".

-adam