Patent ID: 11864529
Assignee: S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) LIMITED
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A drying-off system for automatically drying-off a dairy animal, said drying-off system comprising a processor comprising instructions configured to:
determine an average milk production for said dairy animal by averaging of milk production per milking over a production measurement period;
upon said average milk production being greater than a predetermined amount of milk
and at least one other consideration being met, start a drying off process, including,
for each current milking of said dairy animal until a dry-off date at which a predetermined drying-off period end:
determine, utilizing a current date and said dry-off date, a number of days until said dry-off date;
determine an amount of milk to be removed utilizing (a) said number of days until said dry-off date, and (b) the average milk production;
machine milk said dairy animal;
measure removal of milk in real time during milking; and
at such time as said milk production is greater than said amount of milk to be removed, stop said current milking.