A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for thousands of chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.
Delaware's Department of Agriculture said it received a call earlier this month from USPS saying the Postal Service had an "undeliverable box of baby birds." About 12,000 chicks had been shipped from the Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery to farms across the country.
State agricultural officials say that when they found the chicks at a USPS distribution center in Delaware, around 4,000 were dead.
4000 animals that slowly died from heat, and lack of water. What a suffering, but I'm so happy that those responsible for this will be held accountable, and that rules will be put in place to ensure this will never ever happen again. At least their deaths were not in vain