Patent ID: 9232763
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: A01J,A01K,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A device for managing a group of dairy animals, comprising an animal recognition device for recognizing individual dairy animals within the group, a computer and an automatic feeding device controlled by said computer, wherein the computer is arranged to perform a method of managing the group of dairy animals, wherein each animal can be recognized individually by an animal identification system, wherein the animals are milked and give an individually realized milk yield and wherein the animals are fed with an individual ration, wherein data regarding the group of dairy animals are collected, which data comprise at least the individually realized milk yields and the consumed rations, wherein subsequent individual milk yields are estimated using a model on the basis of said data, and wherein, for one or more animals, at least one of the individual ration and the milking of individual dairy animals is adjusted in a regulatory step under application of a precondition; wherein the precondition comprises that a predicted feed balance of an individual dairy animal is higher after the regulatory step than an actual feed balance prior to the regulatory step than an actual feed balance prior to the regulatory step, wherein the actual feed balance is equal to a return of an associated milk yield minus the costs of the associated actual predicted ration, and the predicted feed balance is equal to a return of an associated predicted milk yield minus the costs of the associated predicted ration.