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

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

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

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

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

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

USPS PRIORITY MAIL IS GUARANTEED TO DELIVER THE BIRDS IN THAT TIME FRAME. NOW, THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE IS THE PRIMARY CARRIER FOR SHIPPING LIVE BIRDS. NEITHER FEDEX OR UPS OFFERS THE ...

On May 2, the Delaware Department of Agriculture received a call from the Postal Service saying that it had “an undeliverable box of baby birds.” The department contacted First State Animal ...

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 ...

After thousands of chicks from a Pennsylvania hatchery were stuck at a postal distribution center in New Castle County, the surviving birds were rescued by the First State Animal Center and have since ...