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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"Why does that pig have so many nipples?!"

"Can we have a pet goat" (as he kisses the goat on its head)

"Can we have a pet cow?" (as my son walks around with his arm around the cow)

We have a children's farm near us and on one memorable visit my daughter loudly pointed at the bottom of each animal we passed explaining to all surrounding children ' There's the bot!! That's where the poos come out!'
I think we had a bit of a break from visiting after that one!

My middle son has always given goats a wide birth....because apparently they have eyes like the devil!

One of my daughters went on a school trip to Hall Hill farm I went too she only mentioned the strong smell coming from the cows well they can smell like that anyway but it was quite embarrassing to say the least

My eldest DD was walking through the countryside with her grandparents when they came to a field full of molehills. 'Oh, look,' said DD, 'Big dog poo.'

When DD was about 20 months old she very earnestly told me she wanted to go "horse walking" (of course she meant riding!). She had seen some horse riders and was determined she wanted to try it so she kept saying "mummy horse walking" for weeks. It was very cute!

My daughter, when she was a bit younger, asked when would see the elephants

When we went to see the pigs, DD commented that they smelt "like the bathroom after daddy leaves it". I thought it was hilarious, DH not so much!!

We went to a farm and were stroking the goats when all of a sudden my 5 yr old burst out laughing. One of the goats was pooing and weeing right next to her, "Mummy its pooing and weeing!" in a really loud voice so everyone turned to look!

My parents very kindly (not) pointed out to my dd that the farmer near to where they live sometimes spreads sewage on his field. Now, when we pass through an area where the farmer has been busy spreading, my dd asks if it is our poo's he his spreading.

Little Marc was still in his pushchair when we visited a local farm that sold ice-cream. He showed no fear, and allowed himself to be pushed right up to an enormous cow. And he said absolutely nothing when he was showered with cow mucus!

Mine asked why the cows don't have potties!

I dont have any funny stories but my 3 year old did enjoy learning about how we get milk from cows

When my son was younger we took him to Folly Farm. When we came across the cows we explained that the milk came from underneath fromthe teets (so to speak), he got really confused and said "No it doesn't!! It comes from the Coop! Everyone was laughing and it's still something we laugh about to this day!

My son refused to believe milk came from cows when he saw their udders.. 'Don't be silly mum, even I know milk comes from the supermarket in bottles'.. I had to tell him it was a bit more complex than that.

First time we took my 2nd youngest DS to a farm he was so excited to see all the animals when we got to the Llamas they spat at us so my son spat back at them he was the only two at the time I didn't realise he knew such a filthy habit but needless to say we moved swiftly on from them and now my son says it's his least favourite animal so we tend to avoid them at farms and zoo's, two of my DDs don't like the smell of farms and the countryside they say it smells like daddy dung to my husbands amusement.

When DD was much younger she noticed the calf's feeding at a local animal park and kept shouting 'cow's have lot of boobies!' much to everyone's amusement and our embarrassment as it went on all day lol

My daughter always comments on the smell. "It smells worse than you!!"

Eggs come out of chicken's bums... apparently.

We took my daughter to a farm when she was 4. A lady near some chickens were telling them about hens laying eggs.

I had gone to the toilet and my daughter and her dad had walked round and ended up seeing a chicken lay an egg.

She ran to me when se saw me telling me that a hen had pooed an egg!

On the way home on a bus jam packed full of people she had a lot of questions... most starting with ... "but mum... when i poo an egg...!!"

My dc really enjoyed himself running through a field covered in crispy cow pats , that was until he tripped on a grassy hassock and fell hands first into one. He emerged crying loudly and covered in cow pat because it was only crispy on the surface. I rummaged in my pockets for something to help clean him up with and all I could find were some lemon wipes from a fast food chain. He settled down after his hands were cleaned but proceeded to inform everyone we then met that he was now the proud owner of 'lemon pooh pooh hands'.

When ED was young we took her to a farm in Devon and before going in she said can i hold the snakes and spiders to which we replied if you can find them sure you can! What we didn't know was that there was a special section on site for reptiles, spiders & rats... She held Tarantula's a couple of snakes, lots of rats and didn't bat an eyelid. I was really proud of her and when we got home she asked if she could have some rats as pets, and they were a great addition to the family, teaching her care skills, responsibility and the circle of life as they only live for a couple of years!

Quite a few years ago now, but still makes me smile - we were out with my nephew at Castle Howard when a lady walked by with a large, long-haired German shepherd dog, when nephew (aged about 3) asks loudly 'why has is that lady taking a big bad wolf for a walk?'!
Lady was not at all impressed and explained in great detail how the big pooch was not a wolf and was in fact very affectionate!

My son and I visited a farm with a heavily pregnant sister in law called Marie. On seeing the hen house my son said in a loud voice ' when's Marie's baby going to hatch'?

Was asked when seeing cows being milked "Why isn't the milk going straight into the bottles of milk like what we buy in the shops "