In the event that my 2nd chocobo, AlphaZephyr, reached day 64 a few days ago, I am summarizing his stats here for my own reference.

If you’re reading this and have some question, or have anything to share, please feel free to register and post your reply. I don’t bite.

The detailed spreadsheet can be found here. Aleczan’s New Chocobo 22 August 2009 : AlphaZephyr

I’ve kept track of what I did for my chocobo each day. The question mark in a cell means I cannot remember. The blank ones probably meant I don’t remember too. But the one with a dash ( – ) in it means I realized later that I forgot to do that stuff, and can also means that it is not available.

Owner: Aleczan
Father Chocobo: Cornelious’s DestructionLord (red)
Mother Chocobo: Aleczan’s ArashiZetsuei (red)
Chocobo: AlphaZephyr (red)
Gender: Male
Home Stables: Bastok
Personality: Very patient

Current Age (28 Oct 2009): 67 days.
Affection: Parents (MAX)
Strength: Outstanding
Endurance: First-class (MAX)
Discernment: A bit deficient
Receptivity: Poor
Abilities: Gallop

Summary:

Day 0-3 (egg)
Spam examining everyday, about 40-50 per day, 160+ total.

Day 4-18 (chick)

Easy-going personality.

Feed: Carrot Paste x 2.
Care Plan: Walk in town.
Direct Care: Short walks until can’t, then spam Watch until empty.

Kamp Kweh everyday if possible.
Gained some endurance (patience) through Kamp Kweh.
Chick changed to Very patient personality.

Got Lost Chick, found owner, got a Story key item.

Physical stats leveled up 2 times.
Poor => Substandard
Substandard => A bit deficient

Day 19-28 (adolescence)
Feed: Vomp Carrots x3
Care Plan: Walk in town. (due to care plan registration delay)

Feed: Vomp Carrots x2, Azouph x 1 (for affection)
Care Plan: Carry packages.
Direct Care: Regular walk, Compete (for a Story key item), then watch if any energy is left.

Didn’t Kamp Kweh due to lack of partner.

Affection kept dropping everyday, and I kept trying to bring it up.
It would go “Want to be with you all the time” <===> “Regard as parent” back and forth.

Endurance and Strength leveled up one by one.
A bit deficient => Average

Then Endurance leveled up alone.
Average => Better than average

Day 29-42 (adult)

Feed: Vomp Carrots x2, Azouph x 1 (for affection)
Care Plan: Carry packages.
Direct Care: Long walk, then if can’t, use Reg. or Short walk, then watch if any energy is left.

Kamp Kweh everyday if possible.
Gained various kinds of stats.

Physical Stats leveled up one by one.
Better than average => Impressive => Outstanding

Then paid Chocobucks to train Endurance and Strength.
Day 41 Endurance hits First-class.
Day 42 Strength hits First-class.

Day 43-63 (adult, part 2)

Feed: Vomp Carrots x2, Azouph x 1 (for affection)
Care Plan: Basic care (since STR&END reached max level)
Care Plan: Dig for treasure (2 times, causing STR to drop to Outstanding)
Care Plan: Exhibit to public (1 time, making STR to drop back to Outstanding again after regained)
Direct Care: Long walk, then if can’t, use Reg. or Short walk, then watch if any energy is left.

Kamp Kweh everyday if possible.
Gained various kinds of stats.

Discernment leveled up 2 times, very slowly.
Poor => Substandard => A bit deficient.

Been spamming Discernment training (80 Chocobucks) for like 10 times.

After Discernment reached A Bit Deficient on day 61, he learnt Gallop on day 62.

Day 64– (stabilized)

Feed: San d’Orian Carrot (cheap)
Care Plan: Basic care (because stat growth stops)
Direct Care: Long walk, then spam Story, in hope to grow more discernment.

Gah!

What an inconvenience!

I traded my Chocobo Egg at about 3 P.M. in the afternoon my time, so the chocobo day report starts in the afternoon. So, in my chocobo raising record on earlier days, I was writing confusingly about date and day, etc.

So, the date 17th of December 2008 was both Day 4 (when I woke up) and Day 5 (in the evening.)

Anyway, later on I decided to avoid the confusion by checking my Chocobo only after the Day Report.

As an Egg, I kept spamming check on it, for like 150 times total during 4 days.

Tadaa!!!!

What a yum… oops, lovely head!

LOL Why did it sit like that??

Oh yeah, I named it ArashiZetsuei.

Zopago said it seems to be a male, so I had talked to Leonidus and said “If my chocobo grows up nicely, I’ll come to ask for your daughter’s card and send them on a honeymoon.”

I intended to take super-care in raising my Arashi… because I heard that Leo refused Kanna when he asked for his beloved daughter to honeymoon with Kanna’s male chocobo. LOL It was funny!!!

Got Day 5 report in the evening.

Care Plan : Listen to Music
Food : Carrot Paste

After finishing the quest and waiting a while, Brutus rewarded me with an Egg.

Of course I headed back to Bastok and traded it to Zopago.

I am now a proud owner of a Chocobo (have yet to be born)!

We will see what is ahead…

(^_^)v

Today can’t select Care Plan yet, and cannot do anything but Watch Over the Egg.

So I was like spamming check…. for about 45 times. LOL!!

After years of hesitation…. I finally decided to quit being lazy and set out to obtain my own Chocobo. For a long time, since the new update that allowed players to raise their own Chocobo, I’ve been drooling to have one. But reading several websites, webboard topics, and listening from a few friends made me unsure if I actually could afford to raise one.

First off, it requires daily attention. I didn’t think I had enough time for that, not to mention that I’m a forgetful person. Next, there was no easy-to-read guide for me to follow. I’ve always been the kind of person who’re reluctant to try new things unless it turns a bit old…. And I was afraid to make mistakes that could ruin my Chocobo Raising. Finally, the remedies for each of the chocobo’s illness went sky-rocket in price on Auction House everywhere. I was cheap and was so sure I couldn’t afford a chocobo medicine that costs like 10-20k gil everyday.

But after several months of drooling on occasion, as well as more information that stacks up from reading many sources, I decided that now I could afford a Chocobo, in the sense of budget and time.

Thanks to Lusian, who was like the first person who tempted me to raise a Chocobo. Though I had discussed this matter with my boyfriend long before Lusi talked about it and had dismissed the idea of raising one because it looked like too much of a hassle, it was Lusi who posted the Raising Guide (though not reader-friendly one) in our LS board to kept me drooling.

Thanks to Kimji, who had tried to raise a chocobo, and emphasized its cuteness by posting stuff in her topic. As well ass offering to cook cheap Chocobo Feed for us all. She made me realized that raising a chocobo might not cost too much after all. She also posted another Raising Guide in LS board.

Thanks to Leonidus, who had raised a chocobo and had talked about it as well as about theories and practices in Chocobo Raising. He had given me a lot of trivial information that became very useful later on. He also helped encouraging me in getting my own Chocobo Baby. I could say he was the biggest drive that made me actually started raising a Chocobo.

Thanks to Brunestud, who had made me realized how much I wanted to raise a Chocobo. He whined with me, he got bullied (by Leonidus and his Chocobo daughter) with me, and he drooled with me. We finally started to raise a Chocobo, though he started later then me.

Here comes the chocobo quest….

Poor Brutus was busy when I released one of his Chocobos.

So…the Chocobo ran out to La Thiene Plateau.

I went after it and found the 2 chocobos….

Brutus said… Thank you for bringing the Chocobo back!!

Duh….I was the one who caused you all these troubles in the first place, silly you, Brutus.

The Chocobo that came back behaved badly and had bad influence on all other Chocobos, so, to solve this problem, we set out to San d’Oria. The Taru from Windurst and Zopago from Bastok also came. There were absolutely unfriendly to me.

Brutus was very trusting…. He really hoped I could help solving the problem, and he picked my side when the committee were shoo’ing me. LOL!

The solution we came up with at the end was to let the Chocobos meet in Jeuno….

The Chocobos realized the truth and became sad. It was a very touching moment, but I must admit I couldn’t help laughing. Bahhh poor things, but…hey it’s not a big deal, birds!

Anyway, mystery solved.

Hantileon summonned the committe again and announced his decision.

Adventurers (namely me) are now allowed to raise a chocobo.