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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[funkyfish586]

I remember when we took my son to the farm for the first time he was so super excited that he was squealing. We went in to guinea pig world and he was holding one and it pooped on his lap. He thought it was absolutely hilarious.

[rachelmi]

watching two horses get close up and personal at a local farm attraction in Devon on holiday, with two little ones was a very surreal moment! Full of questions that you didn't want the other people hearing! Haha

[emmmaaa26]

"Look at that goat having a piggy back", awkward bird and the bees talk.

[vonniebab2]

When I took the little one to a farm the farmer said "its time we took the pigs back to their pens" my DD replied are they felt tip pens like mine mummy!

[Pinkiepromisex]

During a Q and A session at our local farm after the speaker had explained that ham comes from pigs my daughter said ahh that's nice do they not mind? She is now vegetarian!

[jacqui5366]

My son (4) went to an open farm last year, unfortunately for us it was a hot day so the pig barn was pungent, there was a large sow suckling several piglets, my son shouted out, 'that is the worst smell of SH1T I have ever smelled' '' its gisdusting !!'' I was mortified - others laughed and gave a me sympathetic look. Needless to day I ushered him to the out door goat feeding area.

[dannydog1]

While visiting a farm my then three year old son stood watching some ducks swimming in very clear deepish water. He then said that the ducks here must have longer legs than those in our local park. I then realised that he thought ducks walked along with their feet on the water bed.

[RupertsMum2]

"Oh look Mummy, cow puppies" said ds1 as we drove through the countryside.

This would have been understandable if he had spotted calves but they were sheep. He's 21 now and sheep will forever be cow puppies in our family.

[feefeegabor]

My daughter was used to the countryside as we were always going out for walks in the woods, etc. but she could never pronounce "sheep" and used to say "shit" instead!

[10emptybottles]

My mum and dad live in the country and have a farm field immediately behind their garden with horses in it. My 4 year old loves the horses but will not accept the Granny doesn't own the horses no matter how many times I tell him!

[VanessaBet]

We went to Willows Farm at Christmas. They had reindeer. My youngest wanted to know 'why have they tied antlers on those sheep?' Nothing would convince him otherwise, as 'reindeer have red noses!'

[farhanac]

Wanting to ride a cow

[becky004]

On seeing Llamas for the first time DS asked why the horses were wearing fur coats and trousers!

[lizd31]

I love to take my great niece & my god daughter to White Post Country Farm, it's the most wonderful place in the world & they all love it. I don't have any funny stories about things they've said there but I do about a trip to London Zoo. We were in the Monkey House & as monkeys tend to do one was playing with himself & a very posh little girl aged about 5 said 'Oh Mummy, it looks a little bit like a penis'. I had to restrain myself from exploding with laughter

[MakeTeaNotWar]

DH is a butcher so last time we went to the farm, the DCs were begging him to pleeeeeease don't kill the cows daddy, please don't make sausages from the piggies

[moosexxx]

My youngest (after seeing a sow and her piglets) wanted to know why we could not have pigs milk for breakfast, instead of cow's milk.
I struggled to answer, and went for cow's milk tasting better!

[Falconhoof1]

Seeing great heaps of poo when walking around a farm, my daughter said "they must be big dogs". It was off course horse poo!

[Marg2k8]

Ca n't think of anything funny really. One lasting memory was when we saw a lamb being born, but I had to usher my children quickly away when it became apparent it was going to be stillborn.

[EasterRobin]

After explaining to her that ducks lay duck eggs, geese lay goose eggs and chickens lay chicken eggs, DD looked at a nearby goat and confidently told us that goats lay goat eggs.

[Dormouse1940]

My son struggled with pronouncing some words, which could be both quite endearing and also mortifying, depending on the .

Awkward at the seaside when his excited pointing and shouting at the beach sounded like he was shrieking 'BITCH!' and I was openly cringing when we took him to a local farm centre for his 2nd birthday where the horses and ponies were 'whores!'.

[sarah861421]

we live in the country so see cows and sheep on a regular basis, if I ever tried to take the children to a farm open day they just asked what was the point, and would nt go

[kkhimji]

a child mad a massive moo sound when i was milking a cow, caught me off guard and gave me a massive scare!

[buckley1983]

We live in quite a rural area & frequently soak up the sounds & smells of the country - I love this, but my son.. not so much!
He's 4 now & always complains when it's muck spreading season - asking why we have to live in the country because it's so stinky!!
We were out walking once when he was about 2 - he was having a carry from his dad & was nestling into his shoulder - then he perked up suddenly & shouting 'I can smell sheeps!' :) :)

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

Mummy, why do we take away the cows babies so we can have their milk? Isn't cow milk for cow babies?

And

"Mummy, why isn't Cadbury's fairtrade any more?"

And on one memorable occasion

"Mummy, why is Cadbury's so yucky now - it used to be nice"

The funny things they come out with!

[dragonara53]

A few years ago my second to the youngest daughter was about three years old when we were driving through the countryside to go to the East coast. Anyway all of a sudden she starts shouting, look at those f**kin hells I said what? And she pointed while saying it again. Guess what she was pointing at? A field full of cows 😂😂 we had a few words about not saying the f word. It was funny at the time though.