Stable

[Verethyl]

So thinking about trying to train my Chocobo, BUT from what I've been reading I can NOT grow any fruits or vegetables w/o a garden, ( it seems like there can only be one garden per estate and I can't afford a room to have any gardening pots) and I can't clean the stable w/o a magicked broom which I sure can't afford. So why don't they have the broom attached to the stable? That way anyone could use it.................. I'm sure the fruits and veggies on the market sell for high rise prices, so guess I won't be training my Chocobo until maybe lev 70

[Alma_karma]

You can buy karrak root (might be spelling that wrong) from the market board. Those are base food for your Chocobo. If your fc house has a junk monger they sell dyes, catalysts, and garden supplies. They will sell magic brooms for 20k if i remember correctly. You can also have your fc leader buy them with the fc credits. Feed ur Chocobo only when the stable is perfectly clean / sparkling for most exp gain. Of course there are fav foods and junk like that that you can also buy on market but they can be expensive.

Also i suggest taking your chocobaby with you while you run around. Not only are they great help killing things but you are leveling them too. Put them away in the stable and train them when you go to log off

[Raldo]

Krakka Roots generally cost less than 1k per root on the markets (on my server anyway), and the Magicked Stable Broom is 20k from an NPC vendor (and they're probably cheaper on the markets too). If you can't afford that, just keep playing the game. By the time you're trudging through all the lv50 main story quests, it feels like every quest throws ~5k at you.

The other chocobo foods are either to change the color of your chocobo, or to give it some kind of additional trait, neither of which are necessary. Though I suppose it is worth mentioning that it takes one Thavnarian Onion to boost your chocobo into every rank past 10, and those are relatively expensive, but you probably won't get there for a while.

Important note!
You may have been looking at the price of a "Magic Broom". That is just a minion and it cannot be used to clean a stable. You need a "Magicked Stable Broom". Magicked Stable Brooms are consumed every time you use them, so you will need several. Consider asking your FC if they'll keep several stocked in the FC chest or something.