I did a What Do You Do/ Chose Your Own Adventure type thing back when i started doing fluffy stuff but it never got anywhere, so i want to start from scratch with some gamey mechanics (kinda inspired by the fluffy breeder html game)
So let’s see if this goes forward 
What do you do?
Go to the shelter, look for a soon mama. Look for fluffy breeder websites and trade publications. Read up!
First of all, get some fluffies, some cheap fluffies from fluffymart (3-4$), probably brown or dark green, theres a chance they’d produce great offspring, if that were to fail, i’d go feral hunting, looking for unwanted “babbehs” or decently colored fluffies.
I usually go with the “quantity over quality” and get a lot of fluffies. Then sell them, if no one wants them then thay will make some good food for the rest, repeat, and then profit.
Once i start getting the “good” fluffies, alicorns, desirable colors, etc… I’d start replacing the least desirable with the new ones.
Then I would not spend a lot in kibble, old fluffies and low quality kibble will do the trick.
Well, scouring the shelters/shops for last chances foals/fluffies would be my call. They are bound to be easier to work with, cheaper than trending colours and grateful for saving them.
You can then use them to train/oversee the next batch.
Addendum.
Avoiding ferals is kind of a must at this point. You have no “teacher” fluffies, which means the basics would need to be taught by you, making it harder than teaching “by example”. Secondly, ferals are going to be extra bucks for medicines (which cost way more than fluffies usually) and eventual spay/neuter in the case of teachers/companion fluffies. If buying foals, a baby bottle with formula is a great idea for bonding with them, likely ensuring their eternal devotion, as not only you saved them from becoming petfood/euthanasia, you also literally became their daddeh/mummah. More time consuming than an autofeeder, but cheaper aswell. Right now, I’d aim for low costs, high performance. Becoming a fluffy hoarder is simply going to get you booted by your family. A nucleus of three/four fluffies would be my go to.
Get some
aphrodisiac
A soon mummah
A young stallion
Wait for the birth
Breed them after the foals are weaned
Rinse and repeat
I’m squeamish and dislike cleaning up crap, so I wouldn’t breed fluffies in the first place. But y’all have fun!
(Cue Rush song)
time to porch pirate, fluffy version 
domestics will be more conductive and likely already have training, cuts down on effort. just gotta hide them for a week or so
Napoleon the mini microfluff takes the stage:
“Napowean fin’ bweedew and convince tu make wandscapin’ biznez. Bweedin’ fun but no am wewiabwe.”
“If stiww wan bweed den nee make mobies ob enfies. An’ babies. One fow FwuffTV at Nites, da oddah fow YouTube.”
Go to a shelter and look for a pregnant mare with decent coloration. Make sure not to cause her unneeded stress, as a smooth first litter is going to make or break you.
Stay away from ferals. On the off chance they can even produce quality colors you will likely end up with runts or mutants. They likely come with diseases and defects. You would only be increasing the odds of malformed foals popping out and having to do some horrible shit. The only result is mental trauma on yourself and the fluffies involved.
Hit up the shelter. Invest into a quality dam with good colors, preferably already pregnant. Don’t aim too high, something with colors vaguely pleasing to braindead children will do. The real expenses will be feeding the family. Save some actual money, maybe 100-125 for just feeding the mother. Let her raise the foals until they are weaned then sell.
Keep them completely isolated to the house except for several hours of play time outside once the foals are capable of moving around properly. So long as you’re always home and not working an actual job put real time and effort into the family. Be there. Just be in the room, sat there and cuddling at least one while encouraging positive behaviors. Really put your soul into it. Encourage good behavior in the mother, like not picking favorites and teaching her own foals to use the litterbox.
If she produces amazing colors sell her once the foals are weaned. As in sell her to a professional breeder after a few litters. Keep some of her foals until adulthood and use them to breed more competent litters. You will have kept her this long too. Now that preferably two of her mares are adults too buy a stud from the local shelter, sell the mother to recoup losses. If she produces horrible colors bite the bullet and get a job at Wendy’s since you can’t fail your parents any worse doing that.
EDIT: Alright assuming this formula has worked. Move the whole thing outside. Save $500 and spend it on ordering two decently cheap chicken coops off Amazon. That’ll leave maybe $100-150 for buying chicken wire and some wood posts. Don’t need anything particularly amazing. You can probably cheap out for $50 in chicken wire and $5 in zipties. Or go all out for $100 in good wire and wire ties or whatever.
Use all this to build two closed in small patches of yard for the fluffies to enjoy. Mares and foals in one coop, stallions and pubescents in the other. Ideally this’ll only take up maybe half of the backyard. Enjoy having your room back. Spend maybe $50 on cheap but plentiful toys. No need for beds if you pad the floor of the coops.
The next part is purely psychological. For your own sanity as well as the mare’s, do not let them call you daddy or mommy. You are not their owner. You’re the nice mister or nice lady that finds the good babbies homes. You’ve devoted your life to this job, devote hours every day to impressing upon your mares and their foals that when a weaned foal leaves it is getting the best possible life. A name, a home, a mommy or daddy human, etc.
But be vigilant. You don’t want them to attribute punishment or failure to not getting sold out of your operation. This will only breed negative personality traits into the foals you sell and the mothers you keep. As the money comes in distract them with better and better toys. Meanwhile tell them if they stay that too is a reward. It’s a win win. Good babies go to good families. Good mares get to become mummahs and see their good babies go to good families. Spend every conversation pounding this reality into their thick little skulls until they start comforting each other with it.
Last step. Don’t go homeless.
EDIT EDIT: Since you spend all your time at home you might as well also spend all your time with your fluffies. Talk to them. Comfort them. Do a good job of seeding good lessons into the dams and you’ll start getting good natured and well trained foals. Hell put a litterbox into the coops and change them daily. That’ll train them for that.
If you really are too damn bored by dealing with fluffies get a handheld console or find a compromise. Game on the living room television if it gives you easy sight of your fluffies. If your room is by the back yard keep your bedroom window open and speaker volume low at all times so you can monitor the fluffies for disturbances.
if you live in a state with a lot of flight based predators then place wire coverings on the outdoor pins. Fluffies can see the sky and not be eaten. If the fluffies realize they’re pinned in tell them the wires love fluffies but hate monsters, so the wire is protecting the families.
Newbie breeders focus on shitting out good colored foals. Don’t be stupid and buy into the prejudice. Sell quality foals, not foals with quality colors. Mark your business with good natured and pretrained foals and people will remember it. After all, you can’t sell a socially retarded alicorn. We all learned that lesson the hard way.
Look into starting a Fluffy removal service for unwanted fluffies.
Exactly this, although a poor first litter isn’t game over. As untasteful as it may be, sell her foals for snake food once they reach a reasonable age, try not to upset the mare as she is now your nurse. Pick up another decent mare for adoption and repeat, hope for a better second litter, except now you have help.
I’m not sure how long a fluffy’s gestation period is, so I agree with going for already-pregnant mares - if we have to wait more than a month to get any merchandise, we’re screwed. Can’t pay the bills with fetuses.
The biggest issue with store/shelter soon-mummas is that they might be expensive, since a lot of people would want them to try their hand at this whole breeding thing. First move is to check the prices on those so we don’t shell out 100 bucks for one fluffy.
If they’re too expensive, maybe we can find a super pregnant mare in the alleys. It’d be a gamble, but it’s worth keeping an eye out, especially since some pregnant ferals may actually be domestics who ran away to escape a no-baby rule. (Imagine getting to keep/sell the babies, AND getting a finder’s reward for bringing the mare back to its owner. Clean alley fluffies are suspicious and worth checking.)
time to porch pirate, fluffy version
I’m not sure becoming a criminal is our best go-to tactic. Not only will going to jail shut us down real fast, fluffies who belong to others might start misbehaving out of spite or get depressed.
Go to college after all.
Contemplates a gimmick. . .
Upon deciding on voo-doo and get various supplies needed for rituals and study on voodoofordummies . com (had to break that cause it actually tried to link xD) in my sparetime. -50$
Goes to courthouse and files appropriate paperwork for a small scale breeding operation (20 or less, lets say a dollar a fluffy?). -20$
Checks local listings and shelters, my priorities are good disposition. Am willing to take established pairs to increase morale if they both have good dispositions.
If I get one superior colored pair I will name them ‘the joneses’ and the average/poor color pair ‘the smiths’.
After first batch of foals I conduct vodoo on any dead/dying foals. ex: if foal a is injured and about to die, transfer the soul into the intact but stillborn corpse.
“Arise chirpy~ chirpy aries. Arise chripy, chirpy arise!”
Markets “Chirpy-Alive” dolls online to supplement my initial startup.
Studies taxidermy and buys supplies to properly treat the possessed chirpy corpses so they dont stink/rot (as fast). -50$
Use voodoo as needed if other foals have accidents at various stages of aging before ready for sale.
Fair, domestics that are clearly being taken care of may have loving owners who would miss them, but the cost and effort of taking care of strays or fluffies from overcrowded shelters who may be host to all sorts of ailments (physical or behavioral) might be too much to make the start up worthwhile. Plus, they’ll likely have decent coloration, patterns even, and good personality disposition that won’t warrant reconditioning. Fluffies are easy to manipulate, so you could tell them you’re a friend of their owner and will be taking care of them for the time being. So long as you’re not giving off creeper vibes, chances are that they’ll trust you
Of course porch pirating isn’t a reliable long-term business model, but it’d help get us started if you’re smart about it
I would look at the shelter for possible free/low cost investments. Try to make friends with the people there if possible so they can send me word if something worthwhile comes in. I would also check for feral couples that might be willing to come with you, promising to keep them together. I would only do that for true ferals or dumps and would completely avoid runaways.
The ideal thing I would look for would be a stallion(s) willing to have more than one special friend that is kind to them all and mares that are willing to partner up with another mare and a stallion. This way the mares can trade off of who is pregnant when and help each other through to keep things easier for me. It also keeps them from being overwhelmed.
“Oh, an Napowean say no waist mini-micwo fwuffy. We gon num yu awibe. Mini-micwo onwy for expewts and ceiminawwy insane.”
Search for people trying to rehome fluffies in your area on community share sites or post a wanted ad. They will likely have their shots, be litter trained, and be disease free. This also lets you start with adult fluffies of breeding age. If you grab feral fluffies you could get sick fluffies or fleas that cost money to get rid of.
Depending on your morals you can lie to get them, but don’t try to pass off feral foals as your own stock. Your reputation as a breeder is at stake, and feral foals old enough to be removed from their mothers will already distrust humans.
Calculate the cost of care of one fluffy for the time it takes for gestation and weaning. Divide $75 by that amount and collect that many fluffies. You only need one male, unless you know someone with a male you can use for a few days, then you don’t need any.
The other $75 is for unexpected expenses and care for the foals between birth and weening. Collect some loose tennis balls around any neighborhood courts if you have them.
Start posting for sale ads the day the foals get their secondary colors. It can take time to sell them all and getting buyers lined up early helps spread the word. If your fluffies do any sort of tricks, have them teach it to the foals if possible. Dancing, counting past three, or saying please and thank you helps make them special. Post cute videos to social media if possible.
Trying to sell them early is a good idea, but remember that you are a one man job. You can NOT afford to traumatize a good mare. You need to let her raise her foals until she feels more comfortable parting with them, and you might even want to let her keep the least valuable one or two to keep her in good spirits.
