Patent ID: 11963510
Assignee: DELAVAL HOLDING AB
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 5:
6. A method (300) of controlling a milking of an animal (101) during a current lactation period comprising steps of:
obtaining (301) measurements of milk flow during a milking session of the animal (101);
analysing (302) a sequence of the measurements of milk flow during the milking session of the animal (101); and
a step of analysing (302) comprising a step of:
determining the animal is in early lactation, and
having determined the animal is in early lactation, detecting (306) that the milk flow of the animal (101) has reached a plateau phase (220) from the analysing of the sequence of the measurements of milk flow during the milking session of the animal; and
based on said determination that the animal is in early lactation and the detection that the milk flow of the animal during the milking session has reached the plateau phase, interrupting (307) the milking of all teats of the animal (101), during early lactation, during the plateau phase (220),
wherein the detection that the milk flow of the animal during the current one milking session has reached the plateau phase is done by calculating the derivative of a milk flow curve for the current one milking session, and
wherein early lactation includes at least a first 8 days in milk of the current lactation period.