Quote Originally Posted by Riepah View Post
No, no. We *can* breed our own Chocobos. The problem is, all the Chocobos we can buy and race with in order to retire them at 40 so they'll be available for breeding, have 2 stars at everything, so any offspring of theirs would have 2 stars at everything as well, and they'd also permanently retain their default color, as all bought Chocobos seem to have the same.

So as it looks, only breeding with NPC Chocobos can yield anything better than 2 stars, and it seems to be the only way to get a Chocobo of a different color as well, which I find rather disappointing, as I'd immensely prefer breeding exclusively my own raised Chocobos, but that seems to be an entirely unviable thing to do, apparently.
I meant as far as addressing your concern about the stats, NPC bought breeding Chocobos are the only means to gain varied stats and then you can start breeding using your own for varied stat results, since that was the main point of your post. Sorry for not stating that clearly. It's still early though, but maybe it'll be confirmed sometime that you could still get a 3 star stat offspring from 2 star parents. If not, then yeah, you're just stuck with breeding at least once using the NPC bought ones.