Carl Chaney, co-owner of Chaney’s Dairy Barn, told a group of his daughter’s school friends on Saturday before a hay-ride tour of the dairy farm that she used to run around the farm naked.

His daughter, Elizabeth Chaney, turned around on the hay bail she was sitting on to see her friends’ reactions.

But the University of Kentucky sophomore wasn’t embarrassed.

“I told him, I was like, ‘I’ve fallen in front of about all of them here,’” she said with a southern drawl. “I was like, ‘you can’t embarrass me.’”

Carl Chaney told the group of about 10 UK agriculture students that family is how the Chaneys sell ice cream.

The family has branded their homemade ice cream by having a family image and being a part of the Bowling Green community, he said.

As the red, hay-filled wagon pulled up next to the barn, about 20 cows gathered at the fence mooing at the UK students and a few calves sprang up curiously.

The farm on Nashville Road has been in the Chaney family since 1888, Carl Chaney said. It’s been a dairy farm since 1940.

“Sixty-nine years,” he said. “Now that’s a success story.”

Chaney’s is one of 10 dairy farms in Warren County, Carl Chaney said. There used to be 50.

Co-owner Debra Chaney said her family opened the restaurant, which serves food and ice cream, six years ago to diversify the farm and supplement farm income.

They make about 33 ice cream flavors such as mint chocolate chip and banana, she said. Butter pecan is the most popular flavor.

They also serve Moo Pies, a chocolate chip cookie in a skillet with vanilla ice cream on top, Carl Chaney said.

Debra Chaney said most of their business comes from families and groups of school children and senior citizens.

Carl Chaney said about 7,500 children toured the farm last year and about 1,500 are signed up for this year.

His family gives tours to show people that agriculture is important because every generation gets one generation further away from farming, he said.

“Our family feels like we are ambassadors for agriculture,” he said during the student tour.

Carl Chaney walked Ms. Glimmer, a light brown seven-year-old Jersey cow, in front of the students. She’s one of their best cows, giving about 88 pounds of milk a day.

Carl Chaney said he tells people stories about his family during tours. He talks about how Elizabeth Chaney’s grandfather had a heart attack during her senior year of high school, so she woke up every morning before school and helped her father milk the cows.

He said that story always sells ice cream.

The Chaney’s sold about 11,000 gallons of ice cream last year, Carl Chaney said.

Chaney’s also hosts community events such as a corn maze in the fall and movie showings in the summer.

The line was never less than 10 people long during the fifth annual Celebrity Scoop Day on Saturday. Local celebrities such as WBKO’s Sarah Goebel and David Elson, Western’s head football coach, served ice cream to customers, Debra Chaney said.

All of the revenue will be donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, she said.

They raised $1,000, Carl Chaney said.

Chaney’s filled with chatter and children’s yells Saturday afternoon.

A mother and her two sons held out overflowing cones of ice cream to share with each other. They were visiting Bowling Green for a day trip from Evansville to see Lost River Cave and the Corvette Museum.

Jantzn Emery, 14, ate blue ice cream.

“It’s weird,” his brother Jonathan Emery, 20, said before Jantzn Emery could describe Blue Moon ice cream.

“It’s like a blue raspberry kind of taste,” Jantzn Emery said.

“It’s really blue,” their mother, Cheryl Emery said.

Carl Chaney said their farm has become one of the Bowling Green tourist attraction.