in my stable that was good condition i had a person get the message with one and two with three so stable conditions doesn't seem to matter as i can tell post a few pages back says hoe at certain time you can add colors and it doesn't say plumage will change so it must be when it says this that you aquire a new color. it seems to be alot like the custom font RGB thing you can get many colors with different number it may be that people are going over color limit and going back down to like 22 and stuff or that they are getting 1,1,1,1 so they are to low