Patent ID: 6263832
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A method of automatically feeding and milking animals which are allowed to walk about freely in an area intended therefor and to visit individually a milking compartment provided with a milking robot and a feeding station, as well as to visit a separate feeding stall provided with a further feeding station, in which method an animal visiting the milking compartment is identified and the current value of an individual milking parameter for the animal is determined, on the basis of which value there is further determined whether or not the animal will be milked and fed during its current visit to said milking compartment, the method further comprising that an animal visiting the separate feeding stall is identified and the current value of the individual milking parameter for said animal is determined, on the basis of which value there is further determined whether or not the animal will be fed in said separate feeding stall.