Sheep Complete Guide – Farming Simulator 25

Welcome to this complete guide on raising sheep in Farming Simulator 25. In this tutorial, you’ll learn everything you need to know about purchasing sheep, caring for them, selling them, and understanding the products they produce. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced farmer, this guide will walk you through every step of the process.

Getting Started: The Build Menu

To begin your sheep farming journey, you’ll need to access the build menu. On PC, the default keybind is Shift + P (for “Papa”). Once in the build menu, you’ll be looking for a place to house your sheep—this is where you’ll buy your barn or pasture.

Choosing a Sheep Home

Navigate to the animal icon in the build menu and scroll over to the sheep section. You’ll find several options:

14,000 pound pasture – The cheapest option, storing 19 sheep. Requires both grass/hay and water provision. Not recommended unless you’re on a tight budget.

Mid-range options – Store 26 sheep. These housed options do NOT require you to provide water, only food.

Largest option – Stores 68 sheep and offers the most capacity.

The key advantage of the more expensive housed options is that you don’t need to provide water—only food. This saves you one essential task. If you choose the cheapest pasture, you’ll need to manage both water and food supplies.

Buying Your Sheep

Once you’ve placed your sheep home, open your map and find the animal dealer. Look for the location marked with a hand and animal icon. Visit the dealer to purchase your animals.

Interacting with the Animal Dealer

Open the animal dialogue (default keybind: Art) at the dealer. Select the sheep section to browse available sheep breeds. Available options include:

Black Welsh Mountain Sheep

Shiny Staff Sheep

Landresse Bethine Sheep

Note: There are no functional differences between breed types—they differ only in appearance.

Understanding Sheep Pricing and Age

Sheep are sold at different ages with different price points:

Lamb (0 months old) – 200 euros

Slightly older lamb – 300 euros

Fully grown sheep – 500 euros

Younger sheep are cheaper because they require time to mature before producing wool or breeding. Sheep reach puberty (breeding age) at 8 months old, and only healthy animals older than 8 months can reproduce.

Transport and Delivery

You must have a sheep home placed before purchasing animals. The dealer will automatically transport them to your barn for a small fee. Alternatively, you can use your own livestock trailer to transport them manually. Select your desired quantity and confirm the purchase.

Caring for Your Sheep: Food and Water

To keep your sheep healthy and productive, you must provide proper nutrition and water (unless you have a housed sheep home that doesn’t require water).

Setting Up Water Supply

If you need to provide water, you’ll require a water tower. Access it through the build menu:

Open the build menu

Select the barn icon (top icon)

Navigate to containers (bottom section)

Find the “Old wind wheel with water tank”

Once installed, purchase a water trailer from the shop. Drive it to the water tower to fill it up, then transport it to your sheep pen and unload the water near the structure.

Feeding Your Sheep

Your sheep need hay or grass for nutrition. You have two options:

Produce your own – Mow grass and bail it yourself

Purchase hay bales – Buy pre-made hay bales from the shop

Equipment Needed for Hay Handling

To deliver hay to your sheep, you’ll need:

A tractor with front loader compatibility

A front loader attachment (orange apparatus on the front)

Hay bale spikes (bail spike or bail king tool)

Not all tractors support front loaders. When purchasing a tractor, check the description for front loader compatibility. You can also take a purchased tractor to a garage near the shop to customize it with a front loader.

Operating the Hay Bale Spikes

Once equipped with your front loader and bail spikes:

Drive up to a hay bale with your spikes

Use advanced controls to move the spike up and down

Pierce the bale with the spikes

Transport it to your sheep pen

Drop the bale at the designated food icon location

Note: Hay bale tools can be challenging to use and transport due to their unwieldy nature. Take care when maneuvering to avoid tipping over.

Unloading Hay at Your Sheep Pen

When you arrive at your sheep pen with hay bales, look for a specific icon marking the food drop-off point. Position your bale over this location and use the controls to tilt the spike downward, allowing the hay to fall into the feeding area.

Important Note: Some players have reported bugs with hay delivery icons. If standard unloading doesn’t work, try leaving the hay bale at the food icon location and allow time (10-15 minutes) for it to register into the sheep pen’s inventory.

Verifying Food in Your Pen

Open the sheep pen menu to check food levels and animal health. You should see food quantity displayed (measured in liters) and a health percentage that gradually increases as animals are fed.

Sheep Reproduction and Breeding

Healthy animals that are older than 8 months can breed automatically. A healthy animal is one that has all its requirements met—primarily food and water. Breeding produces new lambs, allowing your flock to grow naturally.

Gestation and Growth

Once breeding occurs, animals will have a gestation period before lambs are born. Plan ahead to ensure you have adequate capacity in your sheep home to accommodate growing herds.

Harvesting Wool

Sheep produce wool as they mature. Wool appears automatically on palettes at a designated wool collection point in your sheep pen. This wool can be:

Sold directly for immediate profit

Processed further for additional value

Selling Your Sheep

When you’re ready to sell animals, access the animal menu at your sheep pen. There’s a designated selling icon (different from the buying icon) where you can sell sheep individually or in bulk.

Summary

Raising sheep in Farming Simulator 25 is a rewarding activity that requires careful planning and management. Start by building an appropriate sheep home, purchase animals from the dealer, and maintain their food and water supplies. As your flock matures, you’ll harvest wool and potentially breed new lambs. Monitor your animals’ health and productivity to maximize profits. With patience and proper care, your sheep farming operation will flourish.

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