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

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

More than 12,000 chicks at a Delaware distribution center were found left in a USPS truck for more than three days.

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