Tell Cadbury the funny things your children have said when visiting farms or the countryside - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

[JustineBMumsnet]

Taking your child to a farm, or the countryside, can be a great way to create the kind of moment of joy that really stays with you. It’s often a brilliant opportunity to educate your child and connect with nature at the same time. Cadbury would like to hear about the funny observations you remember your child making when they first visited a farm or the countryside.

Did they theatrically complain about the smell? Maybe they got confused over animal names, or perhaps embraced the noise and start mooing or oinking? Maybe they started making jokes about the “udderly great time” they were having? Could they get their heads around the fact that eggs or milk come from a farm?

Whatever the funny things your children have said whilst visiting a farm or the countryside, share them below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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[TellMeItsNotTrue]

Thankyou, such a wonderful start to my week, perfect timing right before school holidays too!!

[JustineBMumsnet]

Thanks everyone for your stories! The winner of the prize draw is @TellMeItsNotTrue

[ElandEm]

When my DD was 4 we took a walk around the back roads and the farms where we lived. We got chatting to one of the farmers when my daughter suddenly exclaimed " Look mummy, the cow is giving the other cow a piggy back!"...I didn't have the courage to talk to her about the birds and the bees so the cows are still piggy backing.

[NotCitrus]

Ds's first school trip in Reception was to a farm.
Asked what he thought. It was the Best Thing Ever, apparently.

I asked what was so good about it.
"We saw a COW WEEING!!!" Went on for ages...

[Cambam2010]

My DS was convinced that baby animals are made by the boy weeing into the female animals belly button. A long discussion obviously followed on from this gem!

[asb1986]

We walked past a herd of cows and (as if they saw us coming) they proceeded to start trying to mate with eachother! Red faced (and hoping the children wouldn't notice) my friend and I hurried along. But alas, they thought it was hugely entertaining, turning round and exclaiming, "Look, mummy! The cows are having piggy backs!" :-D

[Elliepurpleflower]

My daughter, a few months ago aged 2 was walking around a large pond with me. She declared, 'look Mummy, lilly iPads!!!' They have been called that ever since in our home.

[StickChildNumberTwo]

Animals are currently designated by the noise they make, so a recent farm visit was delightedly full of cluck clucks and baa baas. The alpacas were more of a challenge, and declared after some confused wondering to be neighs.

[badboy23]

My little ones friend who lives in London came to visit and when she saw some cow pats she asked what they were I explained so she wrinkled her nose up and said why can't the farmer put newspaper down for them to go on

[Itsnothingoriginal]

We used to live near a farm when my son was a toddler so he associated everything with farms and the countryside. He spent years calling Father Christmas 'Farmer Christmas' as obviously Santa had to be a farmer too!!

[user1465415402]

My kids came to a family wedding at my aunts farm, when they came back from playing with the farm kids, they were covered in goat dung, all over their wedding outfits!!

[Cintacmrs]

After seeing a peacock at a petting zoo - she kept saying
"o never in all my life" everytime she saw the bird again she was two and sounded like a crazy old lady

[RhodaBorrocks]

We went to an open day at our local farm. They showed us eggs in an incubator, then some hatching, then let DS (then 3) hold a little chick. He loved it.

Later on, explaining it to his DGPs, he said "The eggs will patch [hatch] into chicks!"
"That's right," I said. "Then they will grow into chickens."
"No, I don't think so Mummy." He said with a tone that sounded somewhat despairing of my obvious lack of intelligence. "They just stay chicks. Chickens are at the supermarket!"

[DiabloKitten]

My four yr old daughter recently asked the farmer next door to us (Dave) when the lamb chops and bacon would be ready....😅

[beaverbill]

We took our DD to our local farm shop when she was about 4. They had shire horses out that day in the yard. It was a Sunday, lovely, early summers afternoon so full of families. DD pipes up, "daddy, that horse's tail is much longer than yours!" DH was mortified, everyone laughed...we went home sharpish!

[Carriecakes80]

My youngest was not a talker when he was little, being the baby he was used to pointing and getting, something I hated and trying to wean my son off of! However, his four older siblings liked spoiling him, and he knew it made them laugh by being quiet and grunting when he wanted something, he would literally say about 3 words a day unless forced....anyway, one afternoon I decided to take him and his older sisters for a bike ride down to the local farm, they had a lovely shop that sold fresh milk and cheese, and I thought it would be fun.
My youngest was on a little three wheeled trike, and was going really fast along the side of the fields, when he lost his balance and came flying off of his trike, and landed on his bum right next to the fence.
Before I could get to him, a cow had wandered over, being very friendly, looked at my son, who promptly stood up and said "Bloody Cow!"
This really tickled me, the look of utter annoyance on my boys face, the fact he never spoke, and the look of sheer bemusement on the cow, it was a kodak moment!

[leanneth]

Shortly after potty training, when we were looking at animals we were asked "where are their big girl knickers?"

[Clairekerr85]

We went to Hop Farm and were walking around looking at all the animals when we got to the sheep and they had all their lambs with them. One of the lambs wanted feeding and had latched onto the mummy sheep, DS then shouts out across the barn oh mummy that sheep is eating that other sheep we need to tell the farmer !! My little boy then got very upset and worried and carried on shouting at the top of his voice help we need to get someone, quick its hurting him !! By this point everyone had turned around and was staring at us like i had just done something absolutely awful to DS !! I was so embarrassed !! we very quickly left the sheep pen and took DS to the side and explained to him the baby was getting some milk from mummy sheep !! After that he was fine !!

[CecilyBlue]

My DS (4) "ooh look at the horse's mahoosive willy"

[derxa]

DS3 found it hilarious how rough the lambs were with their mums when they wanted milk. It made me wince too. Yes they take no prisoners. full on head butting.

[Headfullofdreams]

DS3 found it hilarious how rough the lambs were with their mums when they wanted milk. It made me wince too.

[Cataline]

We were driving through the countryside when I said to DS who was about 6/7 at the time "Oooh, look at the lovely blossom!"
He replied "Hmmmm- it's not really my cup of tree"
After years of the worst jokes imaginable, I was SO impressed with his quick and funny answer!

[Tonkatol]

When my oldest daughter was just over 2 and my son was just a few weeks old, we stayed on a farm in Devon with our caravan - one of the highlights for my daughter was taking her to see the orphan lambs being bottle fed.

After a couple of days she turned to me and asked why these lambs were bottle fed and I explained it was because they didn't have a mum to feed them. "You could feed them though mummy, because you give Thomas his milk. Can you try?" Needless to say I'm not sure who was more red, me or the poor farmer. And no, I didn't try to feed the lamb!

[parris]

Took my daughter to a petting farm with endless varieties of animals and her favourite animal was...the dog 😄

[natalielara]

My daughter just continuously pointed out poo. Not look at the lovely animals, not excitement. "Look Mummy, poo". I was pretty embarrassed haha x