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Posted on 05/19/2025 2:17:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CAMDEN, Delaware (AP) — 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 aware of a process breakdown and was actively investigating what occurred.
Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery raised the chicks for their weekly distribution to clients across the country, said a spokesperson for the company. Due to biosecurity concerns, the hatchery cannot take the chicks back.
The spokesperson said it would have been best if USPS, after discovering the chicks, had completed delivery as the recipients would have been adequately equipped to handle the birds — even malnourished ones.
For more than two weeks, the surviving chicks have been nursed and cared for at First State Animal Center and SPCA, said John Parana, executive director.
Last Tuesday, the shelter began offering the birds for adoption, but only a few hundred out of thousands have been picked up. There is no complete count of the chicks, as the shelter has no feasible way to do so, but Parana estimates there to be more than two thousand available.
Some have inquired about buying the birds for meat, but, as a no-kill shelter and SPCA, those were refused.
The strain has turned the animal care center into a 24/7 operation and necessitated a staffing increase, Parana said. Money remains the biggest concern for the donation-reliant nonprofit. Some employees have begun spending their money to support the operations, he added.
Among the birds were young turkeys, geese...
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Seems like a bad situation that people managed to make worse.
‘..thousands of Chicks found abandoned!”
Oh, birds, NOT girls!
A lot of chicks die in the mail.
Every spring, the local PO has boxes of chirping chicks. One day I saw a live delivery box, but instead of happy chirps, the box was silent.
I asked the clerk about that, and she just drew her finger across her throat.
Money for nothing and your chicks for free.
One way to judge people is how they treat helpless animals. The USPS obviously failed here, bigly.
A process breakdown? Obviously, the postal worker didn’t give a hoot about live birds. I hope the person gets tracked down and fired.
The tornadoes in Kentucky Friday night destroyed a building on a chicken farm--the next day hundreds of now-homeless chickens were to be seen.
That’s what happened on the island of Kauai. A hurricane hit the area, and to this day, there are chickens still roaming all over the island.
You can’t seem to avoid interjecting your obsession whenever you see a chance...
They should open a hatchery.
In Britain, birds are girls. Funny.
Must be a very, very large truck. To help relieve the problem I’ll take all the blondes between the ages of 25 & 35.
So the post office screwed up. Way back when I was younger, you could order 100 chicks by mail C.O.D. (cash on delivery).
When my Dad went to pick his up, he was offered another 100 at a discount because the person refused to pick them up.
You’re kidding right...postal union will protect them even if they cared to investigate.
Spot on. That's it in a nutshell.
Yogi says they don't value life, animal or human.
Changing the subject, but I got a good USPS story. My post office does not sell stamps, money orders and they do not take cash. Been going on now over 8 months.
I now go to the neighboring post office to mail stuff.
If all survive...half will be destroyed because they’re male.
In Iowa/Nebraska, places can’t keep chicks in stock & a lot of people have resorted to mail order which significantly increases the cost.
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