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]

Went to have a look at the new chicks and when I said chick the youngest immediately said "nugget!!" proud of herself. The eldest took one look at them and went white, apparently the size was right so a chicken nugget is like a baby chick cooked whole, she wouldn't be told any different. First time she had really made the connection between meat and animals and she has been pescatarian then vegetarian ever since

[Hairq]

"EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS CAME OUT IF A COW'S BOTTOM DIDN'T IT?"

[beckyinman]

Mine is absolutely obsessed with animals - there was a slightly awkward moment when her auntie came down in pyjamas and DD pointed and shouted "focker" - she was trying to say "fox" which was the print on her PJs,but there was a moment when we all panicked about where she had learned that word!

[tubbyj]

Ds aagh what's that small its notme

[derxa]

I'm an old grump. Coming from a farming background, none of these sound remotely funny.
But I applaud your efforts to try and bridge the gap between town and country. Children now more than ever do not see the connection between food that they eat and agriculture.

[Ikea1234]

Our local agricultural college hold annual lambing days, and one day we went along and saw a lamb being born. Needless to say it was a messy affair, to which my son asked (loudly) "Has it been eating blackberries? That's what my poo looks like when I've eaten blackberries!"

[angiehoggett]

My kids just think that everything on the supermarket shelf just comes that way so trying to explain, eggs, bacon, milk etc was a nightmare. The fact that eggs would become cute baby chicks made my youngest think every time he had a soft boiled egg a baby chick was going to instantly pop out of it!

[rocketriffs]

We went to a farm and my son was besotted by the chickens. I said to him, "You wouldn't want those lovely chickens made into chicken nuggets would you?" and he replied," Don't be silly,,chicken nuggets are made from cows!!"

[UpOnDown]

Definitely the smell!

[confuugled1]

More the other way around - my niece lives on a farm, loves animals and has done since she was very tiny. She's always copied their noises and has been able to do so very accurately...

When she was little, this got her into trouble at nursery and then school, because they would do farm animal noises and instead of saying 'moo' or 'baaa' etc, she would make the actual noise. And then get told off for not making the right noise, at which point she would protest that they were being ridiculous, sheep didn't say baa, they made [accurate sheep bleating] noise; at least hers (her dad's!) did as did her grandads.

They then told my sister that dniece was being disruptive and wouldn't do 'proper' animal noises. Unfortunately for them, she backed up dniece and pointed out that she did much better animal noises than anyone at home, and that yes, she really did live on a farm, and yes, she really know how to make proper animal noises and why on earth were they telling her off for making the very animal noises that they had asked her to make... seems some of the staff in the nursery hadn't ever heard actual animals in real life and really thought that they made a definite moo or baa sound!

[Gazelda]

Look at all their nipples! Said while observing the cows and sows.

[NerrSnerr]

When we saw the giant tortoises at Longleat my daughter got upset they weren't climbing trees like tiddles does on Peppa.

[CopperPan]

We go to our local city farms often. When DD first went she wrinkled her nose and said it smelled funny, 'like it does when Daddy has been to the toilet!'.

[colleenw]

When i first took my daughter to a open farm day she asked

'why is that cow cuddling that other cow's back?'

Yes they were mating - cringe

I had no answer!

[badgermum]

When I took my boys to our local adventure farm my youngest who was nearly two at the time decided it would be a great idea to climb into the baby goats pen throught the small gap and up into their climing frame. unfortunately he didnt like it one bit when one of the baby goats jumped on his back and screamed the place down frigtening the living day lights out of the baby goats

[Debsie123]

As we walked into a barn with pigs the smell was rather fragrant. My 3 year old Son looked up at a stranger standing next to him and said very loudly 'Pooey, have you popped because you stink!!'

[Teabay]

Grandad has a farm. When DD was 4 we were visiting and he had left a robin to nest in the tractor - eggs had hatched. Excited to show DD, he came up to the house to fetch her.
Not being a natural outside kind of kid, she simply clung to the door handle whilst balanced on the doorstep, and finally said reluctantly, "well can't I just see it from here?"

If you live on a farm / in the countryside it's just not that exciting!

[BorisTrumpsHair]

Dd2 age 5 "all this time in the countryside, and I STILL didn't get to milk a sheep"

[honeyandginger48]

We took our active 2 year old son to a local children's farm where he ran at the chickens and promptly fell on his face in the muck. The chickens were so frightened they all 'flew' up in the air squawking and flapping covering him with chicken poo and feathers.

[sweir1]

My boy said to me that heggs are what hens lay!

[Maiyakat]

On our last trip to a farm we saw a sheep give birth. DD was not impressed, kept asking why there was blood and if the sheep's bottom hurt... Then she wanted to know why the lamb couldn't be cut out and the sheep's tummy stuck back together with sellotape like happens to people!

[Hopezibah]

We've just had the classic almost-realisation about Chicken being chicken - "don't be silly mummy, this is a chicken on a farm not chicken like in chicken nuggets"

And also the bacon coming from pigs - "milk comes from cows, eggs come from chickens and bacon comes from pigs"

I haven't yet dared correct her!

[HopefulHamster]

My daughter adores pigs - if they have or are piglets. Otherwise she clings to me terrified.

[andbabymakesthree]

When some sheep were labouring my daughter asked if this was a home birth for them.

[BenjaminLinus]

Another grumpy farmer here, and sadly I find many adults can't get their heads around the facts of how their food comes from farms. I don't find it particularly funny.