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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[Theimpossiblegirl]

Not DD, but her friend was very excited that the rabbits we saw driving past a field were trying to give each other piggy backs. DD is a countryside girl, so she knew they were making kittens.
:)

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Need to learn to proof read. Obviously the rabbits weren't driving past a field, we were! :)

[KittyKat88]

When my DD was 3 she always asked me why there were so many raisins in the fields (they were rabbit droppings) - thankfully she didn't try eating them!

[sbruin1122]

"i like those piglet tails"... she says with no piglets around.

[gemmie797]

I went on the reception school trip with my son's class. He asked (loudly) why the man in the pig pen smelt like poo

[avamiah]

My daughter is 7 now and I always remember when I took her to our local farm when she was about 5 and we were looking at the rabbits when she said "mama , why is that rabbit bigger than our CAT".?
When I looked at were she was pointing it was a rabbit and it was bigger than our cat, as it was one of those giant rabbits.haha
I was lost for words at the time so I said he must be a greedy rabbit eating all the other rabbits food and he has grown very big.
It took me about a year to get her to visit again.haha

[kateandme]

"no mummy this isn't where the milk comes from..."as we are petting the cows
"...the Tesco man delivers that silly"
when we pointed out the dear in the national trust parkland "is this where santas helpers go for the sumer holiday!"

[IonaAilidh11]

my youngest shouted whats that smell

[claza93]

My youngest daughter was delighted when she meet a huge pig at the local farm that had the same name as her! "Tilly" We have been back since and she always looks out for her - super cute!

[Sid98]

My daughter said why can't the animals be free.

[daniel1996]

We took my little boy 2 to our local petting farm, and he was walking around holding my hand whilst I pushed the pram, whilst we walked passed the sheep pen, one was doing a number 2. My DC stopped delved into my changing bag and handed me a nappy and wipes...mummy ....put nappy on him pooo pooo. Needless to day there were a few giggles and I had to explain that sheep do it on the floor, it took him by total amazement.

[finleypop]

The cows are grumpy, they always say moooove, mooove

[devito92]

My DS wouldn't let us buy eggs from the farm shop as the chickens poo'd them out of their bottoms

[phillie1]

Whilst explaining how the chicken lays its eggs out of it's bottom, kids ask, if having them was just like having a poo - if only!

[janeyf1]

When seeing chickens and being told they make a clucking sound, the little one laughed because she thought he was swearing

[hiddenmichelle]

Rather than being put off from finding out that we eat animals, my youngest started referring to cows as beefburgers for quite some time after our first visit. Anywhere we would drive if he saw a field of cows he would point and say "beefburgers"

[southernsun]

We went to the farm for our sons second birthday and a horse leant over the fence and bit the top off the icecream he was eating. He wasn't ammused that the "naughty horse" pinched his ice cream.

[Beeziekn33ze]

Small girl from the inner city on a class trip stood in the middle of of a beautiful wood on a golden autumn day and asked 'Please, sir, where are the shops?'
London kids on a train on their way to a school residential on the South Coast, 'Look, the country!' Not quite, it was a large London cemetery!

Probably apocryphal question? 'Does chocolate milk come from the brown cows?'

[VilootShesCute]

5yr old son noticing the donkey penis. And us having to explain what it was in front of lots of people as he was insistent and wanted to know right then. That was fun.

[VilootShesCute]

Or the other day when down at our allotment same son who is now 10 shouted, "mummy! These ladybirds are having sex!" Bless him.

[Mozarmstrong]

My little one wanted to bring all animals home with us or for me and her to bed down with the piglets! Both times we had to say no and you can imagine the tears that came

[mo3733]

My daughter shouted mint sauce to a herd of lambs

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

DD (2) - 'can I put my finger up that goats nose?' !!!??! 🙈

[7flipper7]

My son loved the 'monkey's with the sore bottoms' when we visited the local safari park.

[ICanSeeYourPixelss]

They always comment on the smell!