Why are barns always painted red?

Answer 1

Falu red is a very common paint in Sweden since the 15th or 16th century, and I believe it's common in American states with many Swedish immigrant descendants. It's popular because it's cheap and because it protects the wood so well. The red colour is an extra bonus, and it's red simply because there was so much iron in the soil from the copper mines of Falun, where it was first made. It's iron that makes copper reddish.
When the paint had been in use long enough, red-painted barns were so common that people got to think that barns and other countryside buildings SHOULD be red.
The paint consists of water, rye flour, linseed oil and residue from the copper mines of Falun which contain silicates iron oxides, copper compounds and zinc.

Answer 2

The practice of painting barns red goes back hundreds of years when farmers used to make their own paint using a combination of linseed oil, milk and rust. The rust was added to prevent mold from growing in the mixture—and that's what gave it the red color. In keeping with tradition, many barns are still painted red using modern-day red paint instead.

Answer 3

I don't recall seeing any red barns on farms in the west. But red was one color you could make easily from vegetable dyes, maybe they were painted red in the midwest so they were easier to see in a snow storm?
Most are found in painted pictures of farms and movies nowadays.

Answer 4

In 1657, the first barn was made, and it was painted red because it is around green grass, and it makes it easier for the cows to pick it out.

Answer 5

Ask Snoopy: It is the Red Baron. No other color!!!

Also the song is not ’On Blue Barn Hill’, it is ’Blueberry’.

You see: many answers lead to red barns!

Answer 6

i read this years ago i do not know if it is true
barns are red because after they slaughtered an animal they used its blood to paint the barn something about fat in it
like i said i read this years ago
i would imagine you could check

Answer 7

To present a big target. Like they say, ' couldn't hit the barn door.'

Answer 8

tradition, Originally the cheapest or maybe the only paint was lead paint which is red.

Answer 9

Mine's Brown.

Answer 10

they aren't. Amish barns are usually green.