Cant shear the sheep ? Got farm,scissors and several sheeps.

[Eriksen]

so how to i get the dwarfs to cut the wool of the sheep ? As i said in the title i got it all but for some reason i dont get the option to shear the sheep when clicking on the farm,sheep or anywhere else :S

[tamorr]

Well if you already have the farm setup, and all the supplies...

Just wait. The sheep have to have a full coat of wool before that option shows up. It is clicking on sheep that would bring it up. The regrow pretty slow. Should be noticeable when coat is full, the sheep grow their wool in stages. I think it is something like 4 stages with the 4th being a full coat. Each stage shows visually.

However you can only shear as many sheep as you have sheers. In other words 1 sheer to 1 sheep at one time. You would have to wait till dwarf is done to sheer another if you only have 1 sheer.

That is about all I can think of off hand. I hope it helps. :)

[Naar]

Maybe...have you got a sheep in front of the fence?

[Eriksen]

notice the sheep had to stand in front of the "farmhouse" and not by the fences.

[Lions_Den]

For me once I capture the sheep and they are behind the fence at the farm if they have the full white coat and I click on one of them an option pops up saying "cut". I click that and it shears the wool from the sheep. There is also an option to kill them. But you must have captured the sheep with the trap and have a dwarf go and capture them where they will place them behind the farm fence so you can shear them at will. If you have 2, they will breed until you have many of them.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Eriksen:

notice the sheep had to stand in front of the "farmhouse" and not by the fences.

Doesn't matter where they are, they need to have 'stage 2' of their wool. Sheep go from no fur to light fur to full fur. There are 3 'stages' to the sheep. You can only sheer it when its in stage 3.. having a big fluffy fur coat, not the sleek and slender coat. It will not shear them when it only has the small coat.

Originally posted by Lions_Den:

If you have 2, they will breed until you have many of them.

One seems to be enough. In world 2 i only caught a single sheep and then got sidetracked with an invasion. Once it was over i noticed i had two sheeps in my farm.

[tjrr]

Stuck on the same point, too.

[LostAngel1000]

Same any one explain this? Is there a way to herd sheep to the farm?

[Paranoia]

Originally posted by LostAngel1000:

Same any one explain this? Is there a way to herd sheep to the farm?

Build a trap (the one that's designed for capturing animals), it's in a different tech tree. Once that's done, place it where sheep roam and wait, then once the animal is captured, select the appropriate option by clicking on the trap. One of your dwarves will then carry the animal to your farm.

[tjrr]

Originally posted by Paranoia:

Originally posted by LostAngel1000:

Same any one explain this? Is there a way to herd sheep to the farm?

Build a trap (the one that's designed for capturing animals), it's in a different tech tree. Once that's done, place it where sheep roam and wait, then once the animal is captured, select the appropriate option by clicking on the trap. One of your dwarves will then carry the animal to your farm.

[jasque101478]

So how do I get the sheep BEHIND the fence?

[Lions_Den]

Originally posted by jasque101478:

So how do I get the sheep BEHIND the fence?

You need to catch them in the trap and then assign one of the dwarfs to capture it instead of kill it. It will then be carried to a farm if you have one.

[sacy]

Make sure you have built enough fences next to each other (when a little shed appears you have enough) build a cage, place cage. it will either catch a sheep or chicken. once one it is caught just right click and a few options will appear..catch the animal and your dwarf will carry it to the shed. for sheep you need scissors made to cut them ( the tricky part there is to click in the right place of the sheep for the option to come up with cut sheep. with the chickens they just lay eggs and the dwarfs pick them up...