Tell Cadbury the funny things your children have said when visiting farms or the countryside - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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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 DD liked sheep at the local farm. Knowing that sheep is doing "baa" baa" ,she was puzzled why we are calling her nan - "Baba".

Me: Look at these baby chicks! (Joking) Are we going to eat them?

DD3: (horrified) No Mummy! (Pause) First we have to make them die, then we have to cook them.

Ds aged 3: "Why is that cow hugging the other cow in the bum Mummy?"

We stayed with farmer friends when ds was about 4. They took us for a tour including the farmyard (full of animals), and I spotted a dead sheep in one corner which apparently had just been recovered. DS turned to me and asked why that sheep was asleep. Friends' dd (also aged 4) turned round with a look of incredulity and responded 'don't be silly, it's dead'.

When my son was 4 we were out walking through farm fields and had to climb over a style. On the other side the corner of the field was absolutely drenched in mud and cow pats. Despite warnings of not walking in it and sticking near the fence of course he was straight in there, couldn't resist the mud. He fell over and was covered head to toe in cow pats. I kind of gave mother love and sympathy at an arms length and steered him to walk home through several fields to stick him in the bath.

I will never forget the first time I took our little darlings to a 'rare breeds centre' and into the 'cattle shed'. My daughter stood and stared with a horrific look on her face when a cow decided to deposit a huge cow pat. She spent the rest of the day looking very thoughtful and then on the way home asked us if the cow had been unwell ....I asked her why she thought the cow was not well and she said that sausages never ever look like that! YES - you can guess where she had randomly decided sausages came from! This answered our question as to why she has always declined sausages!

When we went to a castle surrounded by amazing countryside and the beach - "can we buy this house mummy?" (We had just moved).

At dusk one evening, camping on a farm, middle daughter (aged about 4) seemed a bit miffed that her sisters had seen rabbits hopping around but she hadn't.
There was a pause. "Look" she shouted. "There's a rabbit".
We couldn't see it...
"It's over there. It's sitting on an egg".
She didn't understand why we all laughed quite so much, and the 'rabbit sitting on an egg' is now in family folklore.

My son, aged 2, loved visiting the donkey sanctuary. On seeing a rather well endowed donkey he squatted and stood several times looking under and above the donkey in question for a couple of minutes before announcing loudly 'that donkey has an indoor and an outdoor tail!' . Same child, different place, saw a lamb being born and asked 'what's that wet doggy doing inside that baa baa?! ' it's not always easy to answer their questions is it?

I'll never forget my son, when he was about 2 I guess. We went to a local farm as a big treat but he ended up crying because the animals wouldn't talk back to him!

When my daughter was 3 we visited the wildfowl park. She was chased by 2 swans who tried to steal her bag of bread. When I picked her up she told the swans off for grabbing and tried to give them a time out. She was upset when they wouldn't go sit on their own for time out haha. Xx

H was horrified when we saw cows being milked at the farm and loudly announced "YUCK why are they making the cow wee wee?" When I explained to her it was actually milk and coming from a special place in the cw she really wasn't convinced and for about a week after refused to have milk!

My little darling asked if she could eat some chocolate cow, sadly as she had not seen a brown cow before we had to explain that it was not made of chocolate.

My kids are London city kids and found a farm fascinating. My toddler yelled "pigeon" when he saw some chickens and then later they wanted to know why some animals were "fighting" as one was on top of the other and they suggested we get the farmer to stop them "fighting" LOL! I had to explain that they weren't fighting, they were making babies!
They enjoyed the day out, but kept commenting on how smelly the animals were - especially the pigs!

Has that horse been drinking cider?"
"Errrrm, I doubt it, why?"
"Daddy says he has a horse piss when he drinks cider."

We live on a farm so they take the animals v much in their stride. The funniest thing is when they try and imitate the animal sounds.

Funniest thing was when my son had a bag of food for the goats and all the goats surrounded him and backed him into a corner jumping on him. My son didn't thinkit was funny though x

I did have a crafty smile to myself when my lad said to my wife "That smells like your bathroom" when we walked past the cowsheds.

'Ooooh, look, where the milk comes out is very near to where the poo comes out.'
I hadn't thought of it like that before. Yum.

not so much what he said. He went to a petting zoo and there were guinea pigs, fluffy lambs etc. etc. to pet. No, he wanted to pet the mummy cow with day-old babies!

Another one with a comment about a big dog when it was a horse.

When DC was about 3, we took her to a farm, she was wandering around, eating a bar of chocolate, when a big, fat, pig ran up to her, and stole the chocolate from her hand, snorted at her and ran away, she was too stunned to do anything about it, her little face was an absolute picture, she burst into tears about a minute later! We will never forget that! :)

On seeing cow dung. I was asked why do they pat that cos it smells so bad.

Looking at the goats' eyes, 7-y-o said "Look, they're stitched on!" If you look, they kind of do look like buttons, with an elongated pupil. I'd never noticed it like that before. Of course, now can't see them any other way.

why do sheep have their wooly jackets on, it's sunny.