Sheep (player-owned farm)

Sheep are livestock that can be raised and bred at Manor Farm once unlocked at level 35 Farming. They can be kept in medium pens, which can be built at level 40 Construction, or the breeding pen, which can be built at level 55 Construction. Medium and breeding pens have capacities of four animals each. Their baby form can be purchased from Granny Potterington's Farmers' Market for 30 beans (after purchasing the deed to a medium pen). Sheep produce wool, with the specific item varying based on their breed. For example, a black ewe will produce black wool.

There are six different breeds of sheep in addition to the shiny golden ewe/ram. If a ewe and ram are bred during the day (between 09:00-21:00 UTC), they will normally produce a white ewe or ram. If bred overnight (21:00-09:00), they will produce a black ewe or ram. A further four breeds are dependent on the farm's current season, which include the springsheared ewe/ram, summerdown ewe/ram, fallfaced ewe/ram, and the winterwold ewe/ram.

Like all farm animals, they may have up to three traits, which determine their selling price in beans to buyers, among other effects, and can be sold on the Grand Exchange in their unchecked form. Once they have been checked, however, they may only be traded directly between players or sold to Ralph, the sheep hugger. Eight (16 with Master Farmer rank in Farming reputation) can be sold every two days.

Of the livestock that can be purchased from the Farmers' Market, selling sheep at the adolescent stage yields the highest profit at a base rate of 50 beans per animal after just 24 minutes. This means that a player can earn around 400 beans every two days, not including any bonuses or penalties. If sold at their elder stage, sheep are worth around 208 beans every two days, not including any bonuses or penalties.

Sheep may be fed vegetables, fruits, and flowers. The cheapest food to feed them is Woad leaf obtainable in unlimited quantities from Wyson the gardener in Falador Park.

Sheep breeds

There are seven types of sheep available in the breeding log.

Breed	Gender		Obtaining	Produce	Produce GE price	Unchecked Price on GE
	Male	Female				Male	Female
White	White ram	White ewe	Purchase from Farmers' Market for 30 Beans Breeding sheep between 09:00-21:00	3 × Wool (1,602)	1,602	5,555	8,014
Black	Black ram	Black ewe	Breeding sheep between 21:00-09:00	3 × Black wool (474)	474	7,709	9,360
Fallfaced	Fallfaced ram	Fallfaced ewe	Breeding sheep during fall/autumn	3 × Fallfaced wool (25,134)	25,134	20,935	41,689
Springsheared	Springsheared ram	Springsheared ewe	Breeding sheep during spring	3 × Springsheared wool (25,155)	25,155	20,976	37,300
Summerdown	Summerdown ram	Summerdown ewe	Breeding sheep during summer	3 × Summerdown wool (17,289)	17,289	37,799	34,837
Winterwold	Winterwold ram	Winterwold ewe	Breeding sheep during winter	3 × Winterwold wool (19,836)	19,836	20,821	42,317
Golden (shiny)	Golden ram	Golden ewe	Breeding sheep (chances can be increased with the Sparkling, Glistening, and/or Radiant traits)	1 × Fallfaced wool (8,378) 1 × Springsheared wool (8,385) 1 × Summerdown wool (5,763) 1 × Winterwold wool (6,612)	29,296	N/A

Animal stats

Sheep

Farming level		35
Pen size		Medium
Eats		Flowers, fruits, vegetables
Produce		Varies between breeds
Muck		Animal droppings
Breeding cycle (max cycle)		100 minutes (500 minutes)
Breeding success chance		45%
Growth time (from stage to stage)
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		24 minutes	42 minutes	54 minutes
Growth check Farming XP
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		125	218.75	281.25
Cured disease Farming XP
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		6.25	10.9375	2.8125
Base sell price in beans
Egg	Child	Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A	16	80	68	56
Buyer	Ralph (sheep hugger)
Last spawn(wrong?)	September 27 2023 00:00 UTC ago
Next spawn(wrong?)	September 29 2023 00:00 UTC

Names

Female
Angie	Ardelia	Barbara	Bo	Cammy
Carly	Catherine	Clarice	Cuddles	Dolly
Eugenie	Fiona	Gert	Herdy	Hogget
Jenna	Lamb Chop	Lammy	Lucky	Mary
Mutton	Oonagh	Precious	Ruth	Sheila
Stacy	Starling	Tammy	Wendy	Willa
Winifred	Woolly

Male
Alan	Andy	Angus	Aries	Benny
Brad	Chris	Crawford	Derek	Gerdy
Gordon	Hannibal	Henry	Hurrick	Jeff
Lenny	Mason	Mint Sauce	Murray	Pete
Ramsey	Ricardo	Roger	Shaun	Shrek
Tucker	Vikram	Waldo	Wallace	Wilbur

Achievements

Main article: Farming achievements

• Ram-bow ( 20) – Have the four different seasonal rams in a pen at the same time.
• You Had a Sheep ( 0) – Complete all sheep breeds.
• Sheepsworn ( 0) – Successfully breed a sheep with the Ravensworn trait.

Gallery

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  White lamb

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  Adolescent - elder white ewe

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  Adolescent - elder white ram

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  Black lamb

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  Adolescent - elder black ewe

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  Adolescent - elder black ram

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  Adolescent - elder springsheared ewe

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  Adolescent - elder springsheared ram

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  Adolescent - elder summerdown ewe

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  Adolescent - elder summerdown ram

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  Adolescent - elder fallfaced ewe

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  Adolescent - elder fallfaced ram

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  Adolescent - elder winterwold ewe

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  Adolescent - elder winterwold ram

Trivia

• A multitude of names for Sheep are taken from various sources.
  • Shrek and Fiona are the main characters of the Shrek film franchise. In addition, Shrek was the name of a sheep in New Zealand who famously escaped into the wild for six years, during which time its wool was never shorn, resulting in extreme overgrowth. They were caught and shorn in 2004, and died in 2011.
  • Sheila is a stereotypical name for sheep, and may refer to a case of a sheep escaping in to the wild in Australia. It was caught and shorn in 2016, after living in the wild for six years.
  • Shaun is a reference to Shaun the Sheep, a character that first appeared in the Wallace and Gromit short A Close Shave.
  • Gordon and Ramsey are a reference to the British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
  • Chris and Tucker are a reference to the American actor and comedian Chris Tucker.
  • Dolly is a reference to Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell in 1996.
  • Mint Sauce is traditionally served with lamb in British and Irish cuisine.
  • Hannibal and Clarice refer to Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, from the book and film The Silence of the Lambs.
  • Mary is a reference to the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb.
  • Bo is a reference to the nursery rhyme Little Bo-Peep.
  • Oonagh refers to a German musician of the same name. Her music is influenced by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
  • Catherine refers to the video game of the same name, in which the player spends most of the time in a surreal dream world where its inhabitants see each other as anthropomorphic sheep.