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 ...

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

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

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

The U.S. Postal Service is investigating how 12,000 chicks were left inside a tractor-trailer at a Delaware mail distribution ...

Involved parties are still awaiting answers as to how 12,000 chicks were abandoned within the truck at a Delaware mail ...

For reasons still under investigation by USPS, however, the birds were left in a truck for several days. They were in cardboard crates with no food, water or temperature control. Then, on May 2 ...

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

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

News 8 is continuing to investigate after thousands of farm birds were allegedly abandoned at a U.S. Postal Service ...