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Question:y r barns red is it because the cows r atrackted 2 red
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It's an old tradition. Back in the nineteenth century,red paint was the cheapest and most commonly available color.
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ur an idiot teeni there not atracted to red there fricken color blind!
Doesn't bother the cows but the bulls milk is righer in butter fat.
Cows are color clind. Those bulls are chasing the movement of a "red flag" not the color. That's legend and myth.
The red color of traditional barns are that color because that was the color and type of paint available in the way-back days. I guess it's just tradition or maybe it's still the cheapest, too.
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Because they don't look as pretty if they were black or blue?
I'm here in Kansas and I was born here. Cows don't care what color the barns are. The barns are red because it's an old tradition also because red paint is easy to make. If you get white paint that is cheep you can use natural stuff on the farm to get it red. There are plants that are used for dyes.
Gilly is right about red being cheaper and it becoming tradition. Also grandpa use to say he could find it easy during a blizzard. Oh and bulls don't give milk. Cows do. Also cows are colorblind.
I painted my barn red to pi.. the old lady off . Barns have been red she said it should be white.
This is a fact. A long time ago, farmers had to be self reliant. Paint was hard to come by and expensive. They found the alternative to paint was..blood. I know it sounds gross, but blood was found to be a good wood preservative and they would paint the barn with it, and other buildings. There was an ever present supply of blood from the animals they kept, raised, and slaughtered. The fat in the blood would actually act as a water repelent and prevent the wood from rotting.
It is what color people used a long time ago because it costed less. But here in my area there are all color barns now. Even one that is painted like a flag.
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