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!

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One time when we went to a local safari park, we were looking at the baby goats where two little girls were fascinated by them. Our little boy then reminded them: "now remember girls, don't touch his bottom - it's very dirty!"

When we visited a sheep farm during lambing time about four years ago, my daughter asked the staff if any of the sheep were the same family as Shaun.

At Easter, my nearly 19 year old dd, who is studying Biology at university (& got A* in the subject) complained about the sheep in the nearby field mooing & waking her up.

DS (3yo) on hearing someone say sausages come from pigs - "yes, pigs lay sausages "

It's the Highland Show starting on Thurs this week at Ingliston Edinburgh. We're showing Lleyns. We will have six sheep there plus 4 wee lambs. Bring your children to the pens and I'll answer questions. I don't care if this is 'outing'

Mine never said anything funny about the animals at the many farm parks we visited over the years but I do remember my son having a full on oinking conversation with a pig once - every time he did it, the pig did it back. He was utterly convinced they were having a real good chat!

DS has to point and say "wee wee" whenever he sees ANYTHING relieving itself.

He's 2. It's going to get worse, isn't it?

TRACTOR!

Not my ds, but me as a little girl 'mummy, look, that sheeps got a woolly udder'. Reader, it was not an udder, it was the woolly scrotum of a ram and I was never allowed to forget that!

DS on seeing baby lamb born: "Urgh. We don't get born like that, do we?"

My eldest was appalled that ham came from pigs and vowed never to eat it again. Until we got home and she had a ham sandwich. "But I love pigs... but I love ham too"

They always always notice the horse penis!

My DCs loved feeding the goats, cows, donkeys and horses as when they ate the food from the palms of their hands it made them tickle. They laughed every time they fed anything.

'Lick me again!!', shouted very enthusiastically at the cow who'd just licked 2yo dd.

my youngest is too young just now for farms but I can't wait to start going to them.

Well, DD was rather panicked first time she saw a big pig - pretty much every picture in children's books shows little piglets, so the massive adult pigs did scare her at a local "theme farm" place, but we live on the edge of our town (last road really before "town" ends) so "the countryside" is 5 minute walk - they walk past fields with animals in on the walk to school.

On the other side, my dcs are sad they never get to go on a bus (if it's not walking distance in our town we drive or get on the train), get very excited by everything when we get the train into London. Graffiti is endlessly fascinating to my sheltered dcs!

When my DD was 3 we were at lands end.

It has a farm.
You can buy bags of food to feed the animals.

She was happily feeding the animals, when a goat got a bit too rough....so she smacked it the chops!

It went!

It still gets mentioned now 15 years later!

Well my grandmother actually owned a farm so I would regularly take the DS up to see the animals and have a run around. DS was around 18 months old when I took him shopping in tesco and he spotted someone who he thought was my grandmother. As I walked passed the women he decided to scream and point "nanny moo cow" "moo cow there there". Oh no I don't know who was more embarrassed me or the plus size lady he was pointing and screaming at!

We have been visiting our local farm since my son was about 6 months old, he has just turned 3. When we went last week my son wanted to take a prize he won at a fair (a pack of 5 mobile phone rubbers) to the farm to show the farmer. To be fair to my son he did just that and showed them to a very bewildered farmer who wasn't quite sure what to say!

My eldest son could not stand the smell, and kept heaving, then the farmer told them where lamb chops come from. My children were like, "oh my god, it's so hard to know that lamb chops come from this sweet animal, I feel really bad for eating them now". The following weekend we were having lamb chops, and the boys were trying to make themselves feel better by saying that it's like the circle of life from the lion king movie. We couldn't stop laughing 😂

We took our kids to a city farm and upon seeing the cows udders my little boy shouted very excitedly "look, look! boobies like mummy"!!! I was bf our youngest at the time but still ...

I love the goats mummy they soo greedy and funny can I have one as a pet. I am rolling eyes* but ask why you think it might make a good pet. My son replied as he could cuddle it and it could sleep on his bed

WE VISITED THE SHIRE HORSE FARM FOR A VISIT, WHEN ONE OF THE HORSES DECIDED TO HAVE A PEE, OH MY LORD I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE SO BIG, MY SMALL DAUGHTER SAW IT AND SHOUTED AT THE TOP OF HER VOICE, MUMMY , MUMMY WHATS THAT THING DANGLING FROM THE HORSES BELLY ?I COULD SEE OTHER PARENTS LOOKING AND START TO LAUGH, WAITING FOR ME TO EXPLAIN.I COLOURED UP AND FELT MYSELF GOING CRIMSON. I WHISPERED AND TOLD MY DAUGHTER IT WAS A WINKIE AND WAS HAVING A WEE WEE, PRAYING THAT SHE SAID NO MORE. THANKFULLY SHE WAS SATISFIED WITH MY ANSWER.

On visiting my friends farm our son asked mum do these chickens run round with their insides in a plastic bag like the ones we have for dinner or are these a different sort of chickens?

"The goat will eat my fingers! The goat will eat my fingers!"