MILKING GOATS

Goats were stuck in traffic. Strangers helped milk them.

Jose Garcia was hauling a load of goats to his California dairy farm when he hit a huge snowstorm as he drove through Utah.

Traffic was at a standstill. He felt panicked as hours ticked by with snow and high winds swirling around the truck, and no sign of movement on the freeway that evening, March 2. 

The goats needed to be milked every 12 hours or their udders would become painfully swollen and possibly infected. “I was right on the 12-hour mark,” said Garcia, 40. 

He and his uncle, Bartolo Garcia, had planned to find a freeway rest stop where they could milk the 50 goats Jose Garcia had purchased in Minnesota to add to his herd of 500 in Merced County, Calif. 

They’d been taking turns at the wheel during the nearly 2,000-mile drive. “I kept praying the traffic would get going, because I knew how uncomfortable the goats were,” he said, adding that he was also hauling 25 young goats that were...Read More + Pictures