Sheep are the easiest Animals in Egypt to obtain and care for. They are a source of mutton, leather, oil, and (in captivity) dung. They can be encountered wild or obtained in trade from other citizens. Although sheep can be carried, they are very heavy, with a weight of 300 and bulk of 1. Sheep are made out of sheepium, one of the densest materials known to man.
In the wild, flocks of sheep appear at random. They can appear at any time of day, but always on a grassy area. A flock will be either all male or all female.
Clicking on a wild sheep gives the options of picking it up or attempting to slaughter it. Wild sheep always allow themselves to be picked up, but will usually run away (and disappear) if you try to slaughter them. Successfully slaughtering a wild sheep will add its component parts to your inventory.
Wild flocks will despawn after a set amount of time; however if you pick each sheep up and then drop it again, it becomes a regular object and despawns as if it were any other object.
Sheep may be housed in a Sheep Pen or Modern Sheep Farm. Sheep can be transferred between the structure and your inventory using the "Herd" option. All sheep products remain in the pen or farm until removed.
Domestic sheep eat onions at a rate of 3 per 3 teppy hours for males, 1 per 3 teppy hours for females (can someone confirm rates please?). Sheep in a Modern Sheep Farm can have their diet supplemented with thistle – one deben of thistle automatically converts to 1,000 “thistle bits”, which are consumed at the same rate as onions. If a structure runs out of food, the sheep stop breeding and stop producing dung, though they won't die or run away no matter how long they stay hungry.
Sheep are monogamous, so the rate of reproduction is governed by whichever gender is less present. Sheep will not reproduce if there is no food, if a player has deliberately set the structure to keep males and females separate, or if the structure is too crowded. Although there is no limit to how many sheep either structure can house, sheep in a pen will only reproduce if there are less than 10, and they'll only reproduce in a farm if there are less than 50.
Has anyone noticed sheep breedings seem to lake longer after removing sheep from a pen or a slaughter? After slaughtering 2 sheep and removing 2 others, my sheep haven't bred for another 1.5 real days. ~Aoreias