Breeding Chocobos

Breeding chocobos requires a lot of time and money but I think it is well worth it. This is the only way that you can get certain materia like mime and the ultimate summon, Knights of the Round. It is also nice to have a gold chocobo with which you can easily win S-class races at gold saucer which will also get you some nice prizes. You will also be able to access the ancient forest long before even being able to fight Diamond Weapon but before you can start breeding, you must be at a certain point in the game. Once you attain the highwind, you can start getting chocobos but remember it's gonna cost you a lot of money. I suggest having at least about 10000 gils just to get started. The next thing you get is chocobos. To get river and mountain chocobos which are necessary in the process of getting a gold chocobo, you must breed specific kinds of chocobos. You will need a great chocobo of both genders and a good chocobo of both genders. A good place to find great chocobos is on the Mideel continent and a good place for good chocobos is southeast of Gold Saucer. Remember great chocobos are the ones that are jogging in the stable and the good ones are walking in the stable. Make sure you buy all the stables you need before you begin collecting the chocobos. You must have at least 5 stalls using the method I shall describe but I'd just go ahead and buy all 6. If you think this is too much money to spend, you're in the wrong business. When you've got the stalls, go to one of the areas and start catching chocobos. The stables can hold no more than four at a time so catch four and return to the farm. Talk to Choco Billy about moving chocobos and you'll get to select which ones to put into stalls if any at all. If you see the kind you need, put it in a stall. I have read that it is possible to tell the gender of the chocobo before placing it in the stall but I could never figure out what they meant. I just put it in the stall and if it wasn't the gender I needed, I released it. Get all four chocobos you need and start feeding. The greens at the farm suck, you'll want to go to the chocobo sage and buy the good stuff. You'll see why I said the chocobo business is expensive. The chocobo sage lives close to the center of the northern continent. His house is surrounded by a patch of green grass which you can land the highwind on. You'll want to buy the silkis greens which are 5000 gil each and maybe a few reagen greens which are 3000 gil each. I don't completely max out each of the first four chocobo's characteristics so I feed them about 10 silkis greens each but if you want to max them out, it will probably be 15 to 20 greens. Once you have the greens, it's time to feed. This of course can only be done at the farm. I never feed them more than two at a time, this makes feeding them take a long time but I believe it gives them more ability. Once you've got their abilities up, it's time to race. This, as you probably know, is done in Gold Saucer. Talk to the girl that was your coach when you raced during the Corel Prison incident. Race each of the chocobos until they're on S-class. If you can't get them that high, their abilities probably aren't high enough and they need more food. After their stats are up, it's time to breed. But first you'll need the proper nut. It is called a carob nut and can be stolen from a dragon near the chocobo sages house. You can also buy it from the chocobo sage but it is expensive and why buy it when you can get it for free. The dragon has a lot of hp but doesn't attack very strong. Once you have the nut, head back to the chocobo farm. Be sure to save your game outside. Breed a great one with a good one using the carob nut. You're trying to get a green or blue chocobo. If you get a yellow one, reset it. I suggest getting the green one first since it is harder to come by. Whenever you get what you want, go outside, save it, and try for the other color. Do remember that the other one must be of different gender so if you have a green female, you must get a blue male. The blue chocobo can cross shallow water and the green chocobo can cross mountains. With the blue chocobo, you have access to a materia cave near the southeast continent. I'll let you find it but I'll tell you that it's east of Mideel. With the green chocobo, you can get to a cave on the Wutai continent. It may take a few minutes to find, you can fly around in the Highwind until you find it and then land and ride the chocobo to it. After you get all the materia from the caves, start feeding and racing the blue and green chocobo. When they're S-class, breed them with another carob nut. I would save first but I believe there's a 100% chance of getting a black chocobo. A black chocobo can cross shallow water and mountains. There is a materia cave north of Nibelheim accessible with the black chocobo. Next, get the black chocobo's levels up. You're gonna need a zeio nut which can be stolen from little goblins on an island in the northeast. You also have to have a wonderful chocobo with it's levels up. You can find a wonderful chocobo in the tracks on the northern continent. After breeding the black chocobo and the wonderful chocobo, you should have a gold chocobo. Now you can go to the materia cave in the northeast and get Knights of the Round. You're God now.