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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My 5 year old on seeing lots of baby animals. "Mummy, I know how baby animals are made"

"Ok" I said, bracing myself.

"They put 2 of the same animals next to each other and feed them at the same time then they kiss and a baby just appears".

looks at me with glowing pride for confirmation

"Yes that's right" I said, "you're such a clever boy".

Inside thinking "phew, saves that 'talk' for a few more years"

When my ds was about three we visited a farm park for the day, had lots of fun meeting and seeing all the animals. At the end of our trip we went in the obligatory tractor ride round the park, all of the other children were naming the animals e.g. "Look, mummy a cow!" My darling child piped up with "look mummy it's a Ford and there's a Fiat and a Volkswagen.." looking the opposite way and naming all the cars in the car park..
Daddy was so proud!

My 7year old noticed the tipping ram with his marker harness on.

'Why is that sheep wearing that!!!'

Explanation of it being a man sheep who will 'kiss' the ladies and make babies. The farmer will know by the colour when he has 'kissed' the ladies.

'Has daddy got one of those?' She asked.

When visiting the welsh countryside for a holiday, we went for a wonder to explore. We came across some cows in a field and my daughter climbed the fence to look at them. Two of the cows started mating, so my daughter said "mum, what are they doing?"
So i said, "they're doing a dance, its called the conga"
She's seven now, and to this day she still thinks they were dancing and when she sees any animals mating, she always says, "look, they're doing the conga!"

My kids were really inquisitive and a little scared of the animals, but absolutely loved it x

My DDs (6) and (3) were looking at two very newly born lambs and their mother.
DD (3): two little lambs. They are babies. They are with their mum.
DD (6): I wonder where their dad is.
DD (3): he's not at work. He's at the shop. He's gone off to do buying lamb fluff because those baby lambs have not got much fluff on them.

Two of the cows started mating Cows jump on top of each other when they're in season. Was there a bull and a cow?

My little ones thought a donkey was a pony! 😁

Ran away from a chicken crying "don't let it get me, the evil chicken is coming to get me"

We are egg producers and rely on chickens for our living! Might need to work on that....

While on holiday in the countryside my 5 year old said " mum do baby cows drink milk from their mummy's long arms on her belly then does the baby cow have to wee into little cartons for the shop so we can have cereal" I couldn't answer for laughing so much that I nearly choked

"Why don't they put nappies on them?!" My son didn't like walking through the 'mess'!

Ds stood transfixed by the llamas for ages then whispered "Don't they have legs?"

When I was a child at the Dorset County Show
DBro then aged 4 "That horses willy is even bigger than Daddies!"

V. V. V. Loud.

My mother still finds it hilarious!

DS thought thought it was hilarious that cows had loads of willies. Turned out he meant the udders.

My daughter aged 4 was enraptured by the fluffy white lambs gambolling along on their spindly legs, she turned to me with a serious face and asked 'mummy, are those lambs, the lamb we eat for Sunday dinner?' - I stammered and stuttered a long convoluted reply using the phrase 'circle of life' several times hoping the lion king might soften the blow to her innocence. I looked down at my little blonde cherub, hoping she wasn't too upset. To which she closed her eyes in a blissful expression and said 'mmmmmmm lamb'. I was a little disturbed - she still loves a lamb toast now !

Grrr roast not toast! Please excuse the lack of punctuation and caps -my stupid phone is being temperamental.

We went on a lovely day trip to a local farm, and saw so many different animals as we took the land train to various parts of the farm. In the car on the way home we were talking about which animals had been our favourites when my then 4 year old said he loved seeing the penguins, but there had been no penguins just your normal farm animals, it caused some confusion until we realised his love had not been for penguins at all but a field of magpies 😂 10 years on we still ask him about the time he saw the penguins 😊

When my son was roughly 3 we saw some new born lambs at a farm. He announced rather loudly;

''Look Mummy. They have same names as my dinner!''.......

We told him it was a coincidence. Oooops. He is now however 12, and understands the food chain!

My DC have grown up in the countryside and therefore have no
Illusions about the connection between cute lambs in the field next door and lamb chops, and open air, millions of stars and "fresh" country smells have no novelty value for them. OTOH they do find city/town life quite bemusing, and DC1 did once ask how people could live so close together, and wasn't it confusing when your house looked exactly the same as all the others on the street?

My daughter queried why beef wasn't black and white? When I asked her she pointed at the cows and said that they were so she just couldn't understand why beef wasn't!

At local riding school, ds at two years old felt the need to shout across the arena, 'look mummy, horse's willy!' Then to the child leading his Shetland pony, 'it wees as long as my daddy'

At a farm on the Isle of Wight there was a donkey wandering around with a massive penis hanging down (do they always hang down?) anyway, my DD (aged 2) was fascinated! She was pointing and saying "Look! Look! Mummy! LOOOOOOOK!"

It was quite a sight, to be fair.

"We don't like farms do we, we're vegan!"

When the youngest, then 3, saw zebra's for the first time she asked why they weren't coloured. Her big (6 year old) sister said they must be old like the black and white film we had seen a few days before

Whilst at the farm a few years ago I asked my daughter, who was 3 at the time, if she knew what chickens lay. She had a little think then replied "chicken nuggets" :)