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.

Roughly 10,000 chicks and young gamebirds were rescued in Delaware after a misrouted shipment from Freedom Ranger Hatchery led to mass casualties.

The shelter began offering the birds for adoption, but only a few hundred out of thousands have been picked up.

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

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