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First State Animal Center and SPCA in Camden has spent the past three weeks caring for the chicks and finding homes for them.
The thousands of baby chicks rescued earlier this month after being left in a truck for days at a New Castle post office have ...
The First State Animal Center and SPCA has confirmed the remaining birds who survived a serious USPS shipping mishap have all ...
The animals, which were shipped from a hatchery in Lancaster County, were allegedly abandoned at a postal facility.
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 ...
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 bird hatchery in West Cocalico Township is looking for answers after thousands of baby birds being shipped to customers ...
On May 2, the Delaware Department of Agriculture received a call from the Postal Service saying that it had “an undeliverable box of baby birds.” The department contacted First State Animal ...