If the gamer is cooking multiple cakes, multiply each ingredient by the number of cakes he wants to make. Throw that in the cooking pot or industrial cooker and let it bake.
The gamer should then place the sweet vegetable cakes in the last slot on his hotbar. For the uninitiated, the last spot on the hotbar is used in passive taming. Setting it anywhere else in the hotbar will cause the gamer to eat the cake rather than feed it to the Ovis, when he eventually finds them.
Ovis tend to like the open Grasslands of the island for their wild spawning grounds. However, Ovis are incredibly rare creatures, on account of their generally carefree behavior in a land full of natural predators. The gamer should be diligent in his search and he is sure to come across them eventually.
Sometimes new dinos won’t spawn if the server is already full with the old ones. Alternatively, the gamer could hop on a T-Rex and go on his own killing spree in hopes of Ovis spawning.
Once he has found an Ovis, he should calmly approach it and offer the sweet vegetable cake set to his last hotbar slot. If initiated successfully, the sheep will eat the cake and become the gamer’s loyal companion from thereon.