OSRS Sheep Herder Quest Guide: Easy Steps for Beginner

Sheep Herder is a short but tricky quest in the Elf questline. Your task is simple: round up four infected sheep, poison them, and burn their bones to prevent a plague from spreading through Ardougne. The challenge lies in herding the sheep — they have a mind of their own and love to wander off.

General Questing Tips

• Enable RuneLite Quest Helper to keep track of objectives.
• Hold the spacebar to skip dialogue.
• Use number keys to quickly select chat options.
• Bring stamina potions; they make herding far easier than you’d expect.
   

Time to Complete: Roughly 9–14 minutes, depending on how cooperative the sheep are.

Requirements

• No skill, quest, or special item requirements.
• 100 coins for the plague jacket and trousers.
• Optional: stamina potions to speed up herding.
  
  

Walkthrough of Sheep Herder

Start the Quest

Talk to Councillor Halgrive outside the East Ardougne church shown in the map below. Fast travel options:

• Ardougne Teleport – fastest method.
• Boat from Rimmington – 30 gp, slower.

• Select chat option 1 to agree to help. He will direct you to Doctor Orbon inside the church. Purchase the plague jacket and trousers for 100 coins.

Herding the Sick Sheep

• Equip the plague clothing.
• Go to the enclosure north of Ardougne and pick up the cattleprod shown in the image below.

Herding Tips:

• When a sheep says BAAAAA!, it moves in the direction you prod.
• When a sheep says Baa, it runs back to its starting position.
• Stand behind the sheep and spam-click to push it in the desired direction.
• If a sheep gets stuck on a wall, reposition behind it and prod again.
• Ensure the sheep fully enters the pen; some will stop one tile away and turn around.
   

Sheep Locations

The location of each sheep is shown in the images below.

• Red Sheep: North of East Ardougne’s northern bank.

• Green Sheep: North-east of the red one, above the fenced area with fallen trees.

• Blue Sheep: North-west of the incinerator enclosure, near a small warrior camp. Don’t wander too far west — level 42 moss giants will ruin your day.

• Yellow Sheep: Just south of the Fishing Guild.

Killing and Disposing

• Use poison sheep food on each sheep.
• Pick up the bones and use them on the incinerator to destroy them.

Return to Councillor Halgrive to complete the quest.

Rewards from the Sheep Herder

• 4 Quest Points
• 3,100 coins
• Required to start Mourning’s End Part I.
   

Since you are already in Ardougne, Some other easy quests to do there are: Plague city, Biohazard, monk’s friend or the tower of life. They are quite easy and give decent rewards.