Thousands of baby chickens were found dead in the truck in the middle of the shipping loss

Rescuers found thousands of baby birds, alive and dead, left in a truck in Delaware for several days in the middle of a reported shipping open.

According to Delaware onlineThe truck containing the young birds was left unattended for several days at a USPS processing and distribution center in New Castle after leaving Freedom Ranger Hatchery in Pennsylvania at the end of last month.

While thousands of the birds died while on the truck survived thousands and are now being cared for by First State Animal Center and SPCA.

According to WBOC TVThe organization received the birds after receiving a warning from the Delaware Department of Agriculture. The processing and distribution center where the birds were stranded contacted the Department of Agriculture for help after freight delays and repeated rejections from distribution centers, according to the outlet.

A spokesman for the Delaware Department of Agriculture told People that the agency was contacted by the USPS Delaware Processing and Distribution Center at 187 Quigley Blvd. in New Castle on May 2 on “Non -Deliverable Birds.” In response, the agency facilitated the transfer to First State Animal Center later that day. ”

“We did not know the size of the problem until they arrived at the First State Animal Center, and our animal health staff was there and helped the protective cabinet late on Friday night,” spokesman.

The rescue center Published on Facebook on May 3 That the birds – including children’s cookies, geese and chickens – were left in the heat for three days without water or food. The organization estimated that it received between 3,000 and 5,000 birds from the incident and later increased the number to over 10,000. A few thousand of the birds on the truck were “dead on arrival”, the post noted.

The rescue shared in a separate Facebook post on May 5 that almost half of the birds it received was in “stable but gently” condition.

“I can’t even describe the scene and the job, to pull out the living birds from the deceased,” first state Animal Center CEO John Pareware online told to seek cardboard boxes for survivors and estimated that 4,000 birds died in the incident.

“We think we have about 8,100 birds alive here, but we do not have a final number. When you look in our capsules it is difficult to count because everything you see is fluff,” added Parana. “We have a long way ahead of us.”

Colyd Good, office manager at Freedom Ranger Hatchery, told the outlet that the birds, which would travel all over the country, left the hatching on April 29.

“We experienced significant loss, and we have not received any clarity from the post office about why the trip did not go through transit it should have,” Good said.

People have contacted Freedom Ranger Hatchery for comments and have not yet received an answer.

In a statement obtained by people, an American postal official said that the agency is “aware of limited bodies where there has been a division into our processes and procedures with this type of transport and we are actively investigating and identifying ourselves” but did not provide any specific details regarding the Delaware incident.

“Local Post Team will work with concerned customers to address their problems and determine quick solutions for any problems with these transport,” added partly. “We apologize to our customers who have experienced problems with their transport.”

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According to US Postal Service WebsiteChickens can certainly be transported without food or water within 72 hours of hatching.

The Rescue Center has asked for urgent donations to help take care of the surviving baby birds, which First State Animal Center will continue to take care of until the birds are healthy enough to be adopted.