Beginning on January 1, 2023, the new Colorado law that prohibits the sale of non-cage-free eggs will go into effect. The law, House Bill 20-1343, was signed earlier this year. 

“Soon all eggs sold at Colorado grocery stores will be from cage-free hens. The Colorado general assembly passed HB20-1343 to advance animal welfare by requiring Colorado’s egg-laying hens to be housed in a cage free environment. Additionally, the act also prohibits business owners from selling or transporting for sale in Colorado egg products that are not from a cage-free farm,” according to a news release from the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

The law requires confined hens to be in a cage-free housing system with at least one square foot of usable floor per hen, to be in compliance. It will also ban Colorado business owners from selling, or transporting for sale in Colorado, eggs and egg products un