(19 May 2025)
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Camden, Delaware – 16 May 2025
1. Chicks in pet carrier
2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
"The Department of Agriculture investigator that was here when the birds were unloaded was guessing that there was 8,100 birds that were still alive. A lot of them were dead on arrival due to being in this truck for three and a half days with no food, no water and extreme heat.”
3. Chicks in a stall
4. Chicks drinking water
5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
”These were multiple crates of thousands and thousands of birds going through various states in the country.”
6. Chicks under light
7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
”After three and a half days in the heat, these crates were wet with dead fowl and it was a mess. We were here for that entire evening, into the next day, early hours in the next morning, and just trying to get the live birds out, get them put away and removing the dead.”
8. Chick feed
9. Barn where some of the chicks are kept
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
”We want to get them adopted just due to the fact that we are the SPCA. We are a no-kill shelter in the state of Delaware, and we certainly don’t want these birds going out to be used for meat.”
11. David Michael picks up chicks to adopt
12. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
”We have an MOU, which is a memorandum agreement with the State of Delaware’s Department of Agriculture. It’s not a contract, it’s a mutual agreement(…) with contracted prices that pay a given amount for an animal that gets intake into the shelter and a given amount that’s set for daily care for said animals. We know that having the magnitude of birds of over 8,000 estimated by the Department of Ag, that it’s not feasible for the state to pay that kind of money. So we are asking the state for some assistance.”
13. First State Animal Center and SPCA sign
14. Delaware Department of Agriculture sign
15. SOUNDBITE (English) John Parana, Executive Director, First State Animal Center and SPCA:
”The Deputy Secretary told me they’re going to try to go after the United States Postal Service to see if they can recoup.”
16. Bruzdzinski family carries out chicks
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Bruzdzinski, chick adopters (Kiera Bruzdzinski is on the left):
”When we heard about when it happened to them… shocked big time. That how it was even allowed to happen. And then she is very emotional when it comes to the animals, so she was very upset and wanted to help out.”
18. Chicks in holding container
19. Bruzdzinski family adopts chicks UPSOUND (English)
Stephanie Bruzdzinski, chick adopters: “I still can’t believe this happened so…”
20. Michael family adopts chicks UPSOUND (English)
Receptionist, off-camera: “You guys here for chicks?”
David Michael, chick adopter: “Yes.”
Receptionist, off-camera: “You guys want to fill this out?”
STORYLINE:
More than 12,000 chicks at a Delaware distribution center were abandoned in a USPS truck for more than three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered and delivered to a shelter equipped to care for livestock.
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.
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