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.

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

The thousands of baby chicks rescued earlier this month after being left in a truck for days at a New Castle post office have ...

The First State Animal Center and SPCA has confirmed the remaining birds who survived a serious USPS shipping mishap have all ...

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 trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal truck for ...

An estimated 10,000 birds were left in a tractor-trailer outside a distribution center in New Castle, Delaware, on May 5.

The animals, which were shipped from a hatchery in Lancaster County, were allegedly abandoned at a postal facility.

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 ...

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

A central Delaware animal shelter has spent the past two weeks rehabilitating and finding homes for over 8,000 chicks that were stranded in a U.S. Postal Service truck for 3 ½ days. The birds ...