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

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

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

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

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

News 8 continues to investigate after thousands of farm birds were allegedly left to die at U.S. Postal Service distribution ...

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