The Rosie Show teaches kids about dairy farming
The Rosie show is at Fieldays teaching children about dairy farming through songs, dancing and farming puns.
Bringing music, dancing and entertainment, The Rosie Show has arrived at Fieldays and the first show had an udderly farmtastic reception.
The travelling show is based around Rosie the dairy cow and aims to teach children about dairy farming.
The story has Farmer Tom’s townie nephew Matt arrive from Auckland and learn about how milk gets from farm to the fridge.
The cast of four had the children laughing, mooing and counting out units of milk.
Long-time dairy farmer Gary Bucland brought his children Crystal, Aaron and Charlotte to watch the show.
“I think they had some really good points in it,” he said.
Although the children are too young to help out on the farm, they have been down to the milking shed with their dad so they enjoyed seeing it in the show.
“It was good, I liked it,” said Aaron.
Tour manager and director Andrew Kaye says “the kids love it, and they really like joining in.”
The cast who do 130 performances of the show are at Fieldays all four days, doing two shows a day at 10am and 2pm.
“This is an abridged version with all the best bits, it’s only twenty minutes because we know people are busy at Fieldays. It’s normally 32 minutes,” Kaye said.
