Chocobos are bird-like creatures that are used in Final Fantasy Games, Chocobos in FFVII are vary useful in many ways. Chocobos can be found in 7 different areas of the World Map. These areas are marked with Chocobo tracks. To actually meet Chocobos in combat, you need the Chocobo Lure Materia. You can find Chocobo Lure Materia at the Chocobo Ranch, just east of Kalm and Midgar. You can purchase it for 2000 gil, or (much better, since you will not be needing chocobo hunting until (disc 3) you can wait to reach disc 2 or 3 and find one for free near the now empty Chocobo fence.

When locating any Chocobo Area, Chocobos always come in Monster/Chocobo Combinations. Their are different classes of Chocobos, and because of that, their are factors that make it easier or harder to capture them, as well as to raise them. When you finally exit Midgar on Disc One, on the Overworld Map, you can locate the Chocobo Ranch, which is the place where you can store, raise, and breed Chocobos. Depending on what you need, you have to purchase the use of Stalls for the Chocobos, 10,000 Gil Each. You can rent, mate, feed, and ride different Chocobos. Always, you will encounter Chocobos with Monsters, and Chocobos will stay only for a limited Time, to increase the time, you have to feed it different Chocobo Greens. To Mate Chocobos, you need to use different Nuts in allow Mating. The Chocobo Sage is a important person in Chocobo Breeding. He is located North Of Bone Village. He is the only one that sells Sylkis Greens, the best type of green, but he is otherwise pretty useless since he will always forget what he was saying. To Prepare Getting the Gold Chocobo make certain you have; Rented 4 stables at the Chocobo Ranch 3 Carob Nuts, 1 Zeio Nut and at LEAST 50 Syklis Greens.

Blue Chocobo : This one is really easy, as the Mountain. Reach the Golden Saucer Area, and catch a Good Quality Chocobo (2 Spencer). Then reach Mideel Area and get a Great Quality Chocobo (1 or 2 Spiral). You could also get the Chocobo near Rocket Town, but in Mideel you get more EXP and AP. In order to get the River Chocobo, you need a MALE Great Chocobo from Mideel and a FEMALE Good Chocobo from Golden Saucer. Mate them with the Carob Nut and you will receive the Blue River Chocobo. After breeding, release the parents of the River Chocobo, you will not be needing them again.

Green Chocobo : This one is also really easy. Reach the Golden Saucer Area, and catch a Good Quality Chocobo. Then reach Mideel and get a Great Quality Chocobo (1 or 2 Spiral). In order to get the Mountain Chocobo, you need a FEMALE Great Chocobo from Mideel and a MALE Good Chocobo from Golden Saucer. Mate them with the Carob Nut and you wil receive the Green Mountain Chocobo. Again, release the parents of the Chocobo, you don't need them.

Black Chocobo : This needs some more time than the Mountain and River Chocobos. Feed your Blue and Green Chocoboswith Sylkis Greens until their stats stop growing (if the only effect of a feeding is "They are getting along better" it means that that Chocobo has reached its limit). This might require somehitng like 15 Sylkis greens each. It's better to give them large amounts of Sylkis, instead of giving them one by one. After the feeding, go to the Gold Saucer Chocobo Square. There, on the Staff Room door, there will be Ester waiting for you (she's the one that makes you run on the Chococos when you are thrown into the Golden Saucer jail in the desert). Ask her to register a Chocobo for the next race and keep racing until your blue and green chocobos are class A (or, much better, S). Refer to Section 9 for Chocobo Jockey tips. When your Chocobos are both at least class A, get back to Chocobo ranch and mate them with the Carob Nut, a nice Black River-Mountain Chocobo will be born.

Gold Chocobo : This is quicker than the Black Chocobo. Feed the Black Chocobo with as much Sylkis as you can, until his stats are at maximum (again, if you get only "They are getting along better" after a feeding, it means that the Chocobo is at its maximum), then make it run at the Golden Saucer and reach at least class A (at this point, reaching class S should be easy enough). After reaching class A, go to the Icicle Area and hunt a Wonderful (1 or 2 Jumping) Chocobo of the opposite sex of your Black Chocobo. Feed it with as much Sylkis as you can afford (at this point you might have spent something like 400.000 gil) or, much better, to its limit, and make it run at the Golden Saucer, reaching class S. Save before Mating these two Chocobos, because the chance of getting the Gold are lower than the others (I think that if you do things the right way, the chance for getting River and Mountain Chocobos are something like 100%). Mate the Black Chocobo and your Wonderful Chocobo with a Zeio Nut and you will finally gain a Gold Chocobo (if you spent a lot on Sylkis, it should be some kind of monster with a top speed around 190-200 and stamina around 1500).