What sheep do you need to mate in order to try and get the rare pink sheep?

Sheep colour traits are passed on by their parents, meaning you will probably need to find a pink sheep in order to breed a pink sheep, which is counter-intuitive. A chance of spawning a pink sheep using the Sheep Egg is 0.164%

Luckily, there's an easier way. You can dye sheep different colours, and those colours are passed on to their children when they breed. Sheep dyed a certain colour will even keep that colour after being shorn, and having their wool regenerate!

To dye a Sheep Pink, you first need the items

• Rose Red (from Roses)
• Bonemeal (from Bones)

Two items fairly easy to come by. Combining them in your inventory windows produces 2 Pink Dye.

Use these Pink Dye items on a pair of sheep, and breed them normally. You'll have a small flock of pink sheep in no time!

White and red, of course.

The chance is pretty high. I once accidentally let one white sheep in with a herd of red ones (with an automatic feeder) and before long it was riddled with pink sheep.

Alternatively, just use pink dye on any sheep.

The reason the wiki says you can get pink sheep without dyes is because they spawn naturally in the world, though very rarely. It doesn't mean there's some secret breeding trick to get one.