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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

A Delaware animal shelter is scrambling to find homes for thousands of baby chicks after a “misdirected” U.S. Postal Service shipment in which thousands more died, state officials said.