Patent ID: 9320256
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A01J,A01K

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing a group of dairy animals, comprising: automatically milking, with a milking station, a dairy animal, of the group of dairy animals, which presents itself at the milking station, determining a subgroup of dairy animals to be separated from the group of dairy animals, determining a separation period, defined by a start time and an end time, in which the dairy animals in the subgroup of dairy animals to be separated which present themselves at the milking station during the separation period are separated from the group of dairy animals, wherein an individual separation period, which is determined by a length of time from an individual start time, preceding the end time, to the end time, is selected separately, for each individual dairy animal in the subgroup of dairy animals to be separated, in dependence of a property of said individual dairy animal, and in that said individual dairy animal in the subgroup of dairy animals to be separated is separated from the group of dairy animals when it presents itself at the milking station during the individual separation period selected for said dairy animal.