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Hi, I've seen, in a few different morphs, a price difference between the males, and females. While looking thru the classifieds tonight, I saw some het for albinos, and the females were much more than the males, as in most cases. I would think that the males would be more since, they can potentially breed earlier. I realy don't understand why they aren't the same, since you'd need both female and male for recessive genes.
What is the reason for this ? Thanks for shedding any light on this.

what many people will do to produce more albinos is buy an albino male, lets say market is $1200 for both male and female albinos. Market value on hets is $300 for females and $150 for males. Lets say the average litter for a female is 20(to make the numbers easy) You got $2400 to spend. You buy an albino male, now you can spend the other 1200 on one female albino and your first year breeding produce 20 albinos or for the same price buy 4 female hets(albino bred to het will produce 50% albino on average) and the first year produce 80 babies 40 of which will be albino.

Breeding albino to het your babies will also be stronger genetically. Your hets were from an outbreed breeding. In other words one of the adults was completely unrelated. There’s two strains of albino, “Kahl” and “Sharp” with the Kahl strain being the most common. All of today’s albinos came from one albino produced years ago. So in a sense they are all related however any time you breed an albino to a normal animal to get hets your out breeding the strain and every time you do that your improving the genetic strength of the strain.

The other thing to keep in mind especially with boas spending that $1200 on 4 hets instead of one albino greatly reduces your risk of loss. One thing that many of the big boa breeders(guys doing it for a living) will tell ya is you gotta factor in things like some females slugging out or throwing premies/still borns when your trying to figure exactly how many adult animals must be bred a certain year to remain a profitable business, you have to factor that in. So I guess what I am getting at is if you have one litter of slugs in a given year and spent that $1200 in an albino, your out of the game for the year. However if you spent it on 4 hets your still going to produce 30 albinos. Or if 2 slug out you will produce 20. Or the other thing you can do by spending the money on het females is alternate years. Females boas do not recoup like egg barriers, some you can breed 2 or 3 years in a row but sooner or later they will need a year off. If ya got 4 hets ya can breed 2 this year and 2 next keep flip flopping and you wont burn your females out as fast. Because even the ones that will breed a couple years in a rown you shorten their breeding life by do that.

Now all numbers stated above about het breeding are not guaranteed. When breeding hets the mathematical numbers are only percentages. Albino to het you should get right around 50% but it can go either way, that’s for mother nature to decide.
So I hope I havnt confused ya any and that gives ya a better idea.
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My view is a littler simpler. It comes down to a simple supply/demand relationship. You kind of hit on the idea with males can breed sooner. The idea is that a male can be ready to go at 18 months where a female should be around 3 years before breeding. Going with those numbers a male could possibly breed 2-4 females before a female is mature enough to breed. Also it has to do with the idea that females need time off after having babies.

example a litter of 20 say they are 10.10 (ten boys, ten girls) in 18 months you'll have 10 males that can potenally breed, but no females a year later, maybe the femles cans start producing and you have 10 males that will go. Another year and now you have females that can breed. In the time that has passed if the original mother had 2 litter with both 10.10 it is possible to have 30 males and only the first ten females that will breed.

This is what causes females to cost more, because breeds need to keep far more females than males.

I was looking narrowly at this topic .

If a morph is really new then males will cost more than the females. If all you will be able to produce is hets, it makes more sense to buy a male that can breed earlier and more than one female.
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