Minecraft introduced many docile animals to raise on your farm for various materials. What do sheep eat in Minecraft? Check out how to get food, raise, and breed this popular mob in this sandbox game.

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Learn how to feed and raise sheep in Minecraft.

1. What Do Sheep Eat In Minecraft?

Sheep is a popular docile animal to raise in Minecraft. You are allowed to raise and breed this animal as a domesticated mob on your farm. But as the farm owner, you must collect food for them. Like real-life sheep, Minecraft sheep also eat grass and wheat.

  • As noticed, sheep often eat grass, but they do not eat grass to survive and live. But they must eat grass to regrow their wool after being sheared. Besides, the lamb also has to eat grass to grow up and become an adult sheep.
  • Minecraft sheep prefer wheat to grass. You can hold a bunch of wheat to lure sheep to the sheep pen and fence them in. Besides, feeding sheep with wheat is also the key step in breeding this animal.

Therefore, you should collect both grass and wheat to raise and breed sheep on your farm. Let's check how to obtain these kinds of food in Minecraft.

You can grow and collect wheat to feed sheep.

2. How To Obtain Sheep Food?

Both grass and wheat are popular and easy to obtain in Minecraft. Let's check out how to obtain grass and wheat in Minecraft here.

  • You find grass on the ground and use the shear to collect that grass block. You can find grass in plains, forests, in any biome with grassy soil.
  • Wheat is available to find in some chests. You can also steal it from the farmland of villagers, get it from hay bales, and trade it from foxes. Growing wheat is the best way to supply wheat for your sheep.

You should create a stable source of grass and wheat near your sheep pen to feed your fenced sheep. Both these food categories are essential for sheep. You need grass to stimulate them to produce wool and wheat to breed them.

Collect grass in the open map to feed sheep.

3. How To Feed Sheep In Minecraft?

After gathering grass and wheat, take them to the sheep pen and approach them. Then, right-click on the sheep with wheat or grass in your hand to feed them. If you hold wheat in your hand, you can see a heart appearing on the sheep. That's how to breed sheep in Minecraft.

You can house two sheep in a pen and feed them with wheat. Then, these two sheep will enter 'love mode' and start mating after eating wheat. Next, they will produce lamb. Feed the baby sheep with grass to make them grow up into adult sheep. After shearing sheep's wool, you also give them grass to eat to reproduce wool.

Feed sheep with wheat to breed them and produce lamb.

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