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

A Delaware animal shelter is scrambling to find homes for thousands of baby chicks after a “misdirected” U.S. Postal Service ...

A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal truck for ...

A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service ...

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

First State Animal Center and SPCA in Camden has spent the past three weeks caring for the chicks and finding homes for them.

Trapped in a warm enclosure without food and water, thousands of the young birds died before they were discovered and ...

After thousands of chicks from a Pennsylvania hatchery were stuck at a postal distribution center in New Castle County, the ...

All the surviving birds, estimated as more than 5,000 chickens — it was too hard to get a specific count — plus some others like turkeys and quails, were primarily adopted by local families, rescues ...

The chicks were part of a 12,000-bird shipment left unattended in a truck at a Delaware mail distribution center. Trapped in ...