Thousands of chicks found abandoned inside a postal service truck for three days have gone to new homes, according to the ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

ALL RIGHT, SARAH, THANK YOU. AND NEW PICTURES TONIGHT AS NEWS EIGHT CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE THOUSANDS OF FARM BIRDS THAT WERE ALLEGEDLY LEFT TO DIE AT U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.

A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service ...

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