Patent ID: 9032907
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: A01J

Abstract:
1. A method of milking a dairy animal, comprising the steps of: connecting teat cups to respective teats of the dairy animal, milking each teat of the dairy animal, measuring, for each teat, a milking parameter representative of the milk flow from the respective teat, providing a deactivation threshold, and for all teats except for a last teat being milked, ending the milking of each teat in dependence on the milking parameter of that teat and the deactivation threshold; providing historical milking data obtained in a milking of the dairy animal; and for the last teat being milked, ending the milking of the last teat in dependence of the following: the milking parameter of the last teat; the deactivation threshold; and lapse of a last-teat period, wherein the last-teat period is calculated on the basis of the historical milking data, and wherein the last-teat period is a period after a second-to-last teat has been deactivated.