Human hair, dog hair, in the worm bin?

by Linda
(California)

Worms amongst some dog hair from a worm farm

Worms amongst some dog hair from a worm farm

Just heard that human hair is a good additive for a worm farm. How about dog hair?


Answer:

Hello Linda,

you are quite right human hair is an excellent worm food and get recycled in worm farms and worm bins.

The same can be said about Dog hair and cat hair. Even if it takes quite a while for the hair to start to decompose at which state it turns into a suitable worm food.

But in the meantime the hairballs form soft and fluffy areas inside the worm farm which can hold lots of oxygen.

I found very often not only mature worms but especially tiny baby worms inside piles of human-, cat- and dog hair that we had dumped into our worm farms.

So by all means add hair to the food waste and garden waste in your worm farm and let the worms recycle it.

Kind regards and happy worming


Stephan
Admin
worm-composting-help.com

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by: Stephan

Hi,

It depends what kind of chemicals the hair dye consists of I would say!

If there are no harmful chemicals in it than the hair that has been treated with it should be just fine and could be used as worm food.

If in doubt it is always a good idea to use just a few worms and expose them to the dyed hair or other potential worm food in question. if the worms are still fine a few weeks later the dyed hair should be fine to be used as worm food.

Please let me know what you find out about the subject.

Kind regards

Stephan Kloppert

Author of How to start a profitable worm business on a shoestring budget
May 05, 2018
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- Is it safe to put dyed hair in a bin? It would seem that if hair dye is safe enough to go on a human head every 3-4 weeks, then it's safe enough for the worm bin?

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