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

The chicks were part of a 12,000-bird shipment left unattended in a truck at a Delaware mail distribution center. Trapped in ...

First State Animal Center and SPCA in Camden has spent the past three weeks caring for the chicks and finding homes for them.

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

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 ...