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Chicks Mühlen on Friday in Camden, DEL, in the first State Animal Center and at the SPCA in Camden, DEL.
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An animal shelter in Delaware is working on finding new houses for thousands of chicks that were left in a US post -Service truck for three days.
Delaware’s Department of Agriculture said it Received a call from USPs at the beginning of this month, said the postal service had a “non -deliverable box with baby birds”. About 12,000 chicks were shipped by the freedom of the Ranger breeding in Pennsylvania to farms across the country.
State agricultural officials say when they found the chicks in a USPS sales center in Delaware, around 4,000 were dead.
They survived more than 8,000, the survived Social Media Post.
In the same post, the shelter says that the chicks were left without food, water or temperature control.
The shelter did not answer the e -mails or telephone calls from NPR, but the Associated Press reports that Just a few hundred chicks were adopted.
Freedom Ranger Hatchy says that she has not received any clear answers to the situation from USPS.
USPS says it is working on “preventing such incidents in the future” to “prevent such incidents”.
In a statement, USPS said: “We are aware that there are unfortunate rare cases in which a loss of life occurs in this type of broadcast.” It also added that it works directly with the side dishes, the airlines involved and the delivery company experts to prevent such incidents in the future.
Freedom Rangery told the AP that the chicks could not withdraw due to organic security concerns. In an e -mail to NPR, the breeding egg said that this was a routine show that never achieved its goal due to a USPS error.
“This loss has a compound impact on the many small family businesses across America, which counted on these birds,” said the breeding egg.
Boys of living poultry have to be “properly ventilated, of proper construction and strength, to carry safe transport in the post office,” says USPS website. The USPS guidelines require breeding to ensure that all packaging requirements are met so that poultry can be delivered within 72 hours after hatching.
Although USPs have been sent to living animals for over 100 years, some animal rights groups like PETA do not say safely enough so that they travel by post. In a statement in 2020 PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said Chicks are vulnerable “,” if they are sent by post on long, terrible trips without food or water “.