sheep and pastures

[aaronix]

a sheep farm needs up to 5 pastures for the sheep to graze. How do you attach the pastures to the sheep farm? I've got the sheep farm and I setup a connected pasture, but the sheep farm doesn't recognize the pasture, thus no sheep.

[TheLostPenguin]

A couple of initial things:
Do you also have sheep? They don't just magic into existence, they have to be bought at the livestock trader initially.
Someone in another thread also mentioned that the livestock trader has capacity for 5 sheep and those slots get filled first, so if you have sheep do you have more than 5? If not they're probably filling the traders slots rather than showing out in the pasture.

As for linking associated structures together I don't think you do, the game just sends assigned families to go work in whichever fields need attention for farms, and probably does the same thing for pastures, rather than explicitly assigning which fields/pastures belong to which farm. This makes extra sense for sheep since you can have fallow fields be used as pastures with an upgrade, and if you had to keep manually reassigning which fields were associated where that would a messy PITA to deal with.

[some guy]

i think it doesnt work properly right now. they do sheer the sheep on the pasture without you haveting to assign it to the sheep farm. but sometimes the sheep get stuck in the livestock trader or sheep farm. i just bought more sheep and ignored the others.

[Provengreil]

The livestock trader does have some stable capacity but those slots won't be filled first. The problem seems to be that sheep never actually get reassigned, so you need a sheep farm and a pasture ready before you buy your first sheep. Otherwise they get stuck in your trader and I'm not sure if they ever actually produce at that point.

[ToxyJohn]

For me the sheep moved into another pasture after demolishing the livestock trader. Just rebuild the trader after the sheep moved.