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

Claim 0:
1. A control unit (120) for improving an animal's (101) energy balance during early lactation of a current lactation period of the animal (101), wherein the control unit (120) is configured to:
obtain measurements of milk flow during a milking session of the animal (101);
analyse a sequence of the measurements of milk flow from the milking session; and,
based on said analysis and the control unit (120) having determined the animal is in early lactation, the control unit detecting, from said analysing of the sequence of the measurements of milk flow from the milking session, that the milk flow of the animal (101) has reached a plateau phase (220); and
during early lactation and based on the detection that the milk flow of the animal during the milking session has reached a plateau phase, interrupt the milking of the animal (101) during the plateau phase (220),
wherein the control unit determines reaching of the plateau phase by calculating the derivative of a milk flow curve for the milking session and then generating a signal to interrupt the milking of the animal during the plateau phase (220), and
wherein early lactation includes at least a first 8 days in milk of a current lactation period.