A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal ...

The chicks were left abandoned due to a "misdirected" shipment, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

Last Tuesday, the shelter began offering the birds for adoption, but only a few hundred out of thousands have been picked up.

About 4,000 birds were found dead in the truck, and 10,000 others were stranded there for three days, state officials said.