What's a "successful" Covering? Choco Breeding Q's

[NessaWyvern]

A neat tip: if you have 2 retainers, you can breed 3 fledglings at once, more if you have more retainers. Also P9 bought chocobos have the same chance of stats as a bought P2 chocobo, don't waste your mgp!!
Also, the lower the pedigree of the chocobos you are raising, the faster it levels up.

[Jeykama]

A neat tip: if you have 2 retainers, you can breed 3 fledglings at once, more if you have more retainers. Also P9 bought chocobos have the same chance of stats as a bought P2 chocobo, don't waste your mgp!!

Sorry, what? Chocobo breeding has nothing to do with retainers. The NPC you talk to only accepts 1 covering pair at a time.

It's also untrue that P9 are the same as P2 MGP chocobos. Higher pedigree MGP chocobos have a better chance to have better hereditary traits/abilities, so if you want the chance to have something like Choco Cure III early on that's the one of the only ways to do it. The parentage stat randomness is the same though, yes.

I also recommend not waiting until P9 to do the inbreeding game. Higher pedigrees take a little more time to level (though it's not a big difference with the huge xp race buffs) but more importantly the racers in higher ratings are huge jerks and if you can hit R40 in the lower brackets it's less of a headache that way. Plus it was more fun for me to progress up the pedigree tree with my own chocos even if they are horribly inbred.

Once you hit rating 140 or so you can start learning random T3 skills/abilities to pass on, so use that Lethe Water to get skills you want until you breed good enough chocos to pass Challenge 12 (or was it 13) for the final manual set.

[NessaWyvern]

P9 max stat chocobo owner says hi. If you store a covering permission you can breed another chocobo immediately after, by storing 2 covering permissions in 2 retainers and keeping one in your inv you can breed 3 chocobos at once. Also pedigree of bought chocobos really doesn't have an effect on how many stars that bought chocobo will have. I once got a 7 max stat, chocobo dash 3 chocobo from a pedigree 6 bought chocobo. And trust me, I bought and bred a looooot of chocobos

[Jeykama]

P9 max stat chocobo owner says hi. If you store a covering permission you can breed another chocobo immediately after, by storing 2 covering permissions in 2 retainers and keeping one in your inv you can breed 3 chocobos at once. Also pedigree of bought chocobos really doesn't have an effect on how many stars that bought chocobo will have. I once got a 7 max stat, chocobo dash 3 chocobo from a pedigree 6 bought chocobo. And trust me, I bought and bred a looooot of chocobos

Well, I stand quite corrected. I guess that speeds things up a lot.

Regardless, I also have a P9 20/20 choco after only racing since 2.45 breeding these chickens one by one, so either way I guess it doesn't change much until you start inbreeding.

I only mentioned the MGP choco pedigree thing because you're not going to find something like Choco Cure III on a P1 ticket, but you might on a P9 or wherever it starts at if one wanted to fish for higher tier skills before your chocos can naturally learn them.

[BrielleBeaudonet]

P9 max stat chocobo owner says hi. If you store a covering permission you can breed another chocobo immediately after, by storing 2 covering permissions in 2 retainers and keeping one in your inv you can breed 3 chocobos at once. Also pedigree of bought chocobos really doesn't have an effect on how many stars that bought chocobo will have. I once got a 7 max stat, chocobo dash 3 chocobo from a pedigree 6 bought chocobo. And trust me, I bought and bred a looooot of chocobos

So I should put a covering permission and a retired chocobo in my retainer, go to Bentbranch to do a covering, and if I grab the other slips from my retainer, I can go back to Bentbranch to immediately start another one?

[NessaWyvern]

So I should put a covering permission and a retired chocobo in my retainer, go to Bentbranch to do a covering, and if I grab the other slips from my retainer, I can go back to Bentbranch to immediately start another one?

Only the covering permission needs to be stored, you can keep the retired chocobo in your invy and breed from it again. each chocobo can only breed 10 times though. You can also have multiple fledgling slips in your invy (I like having them side to compare stats easily) It's only the covering permission slips that's restricted to one in your invy iirc.