US EditionShipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter
- Approximately 12,000 chicks were left inside a USPS vehicle at a mail processing facility in Delaware for three days before being discovered abandoned.
- The chicks, which were raised by Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery for weekly delivery across the country, were left confined in a heated area without access to food or water.
- A Delaware shelter dedicated to animal welfare has been caring for the remaining birds for over two weeks and started putting them up for adoption last Tuesday.
- Executive director John Parana estimated over 2,000 chicks remain available for adoption, while the shelter refused requests to buy birds for meat and noted the strain increased staffing and operational hours.
- Negotiations involving the Delaware Department of Agriculture and USPS are ongoing to resolve funding, with the department noting responsibility but currently unable to allocate funds.
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12,000 chicks found abandoned in postal truck raise concerns about animal shipping
A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.(Image credit: Mingson Lau)
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Thousands of chicks abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter
A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service truck for three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered. Involved parties are still awaiting answers as to how 12,000 chicks were abandoned within the truck at a Delaware mail distribution center. The United States Postal Service said in an email that it was awar…
Montana Standard
Thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming Delaware animal shelter
Trapped in a warm enclosure without food and water, thousands of the young birds died before they were discovered and delivered to a shelter equipped to care for them.
Thousands of chicks left in Postal Service truck overwhelm a Delaware shelter - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Thousands of chicks that spent three days in a U.S. Postal Service truck in early May have overwhelmed a Delaware animal shelter, frustrating the hatchery that had shipped them to various farms, the shelter and hatchery said.
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