A milking system configured to milk dairy animals, the milking system comprising: - at least one preparation station for automatically preparing at least one teat of a dairy animal before applying milking equipment, and - at least one milking station that comprises a rotary milking parlor with several milking stalls, each milking stall arranged to milk one of the animals at a time, wherein the preparation station is designed to receive at least one animal to be milked, wherein the milking system has at least one teat cup designed to receive a teat of the dairy animal to be milked, wherein the preparation station has a dispensing means arranged to apply a pretreatment solution onto the at least one teat of the animal to be milked when it passes through the preparation station, the preparation station has a teat preparation section with an access and an exit located remotely from the access, wherein the teat preparation section is provided with lateral boundary means (16, 18) between the access and the exit which are arranged for predetermined lateral positioning of the animal to be milked, wherein the dispensing means is arranged to apply the pretreatment solution onto the teat when the animal to be milked is at its predetermined lateral positioning, characterized in that the teat cup is designed with a rinsing function by which the received teat is cleaned prior to the milking process, and the rinsing function is provided to remove the pretreatment solution applied onto the teat at the preparation station from the teat in a rinsing process, wherein the teat cup is provided as a separate teat preparation cup for performing the rinsing function and is designed as a part of the milking station or the teat cup is designed as a part of the milking station wherein the teat cup is designed both for performing the rinsing function and for performing the milking process. - at least one preparation station for automatically preparing at least one teat of a dairy animal before applying milking equipment, and - at least one milking station that comprises a rotary milking parlor with several milking stalls, each milking stall arranged to milk one of the animals at a time, wherein the preparation station is designed to receive at least one animal to be milked, wherein the milking system has at least one teat cup designed to receive a teat of the dairy animal to be milked, wherein the preparation station has a dispensing means arranged to apply a pretreatment solution onto the at least one teat of the animal to be milked when it passes through the preparation station, the preparation station has a teat preparation section with an access and an exit located remotely from the access, wherein the teat preparation section is provided with lateral boundary means (16, 18) between the access and the exit which are arranged for predetermined lateral positioning of the animal to be milked, wherein the dispensing means is arranged to apply the pretreatment solution onto the teat when the animal to be milked is at its predetermined lateral positioning, characterized in that the teat cup is designed with a rinsing function by which the received teat is cleaned prior to the milking process, and the rinsing function is provided to remove the pretreatment solution applied onto the teat at the preparation station from the teat in a rinsing process, wherein the teat cup is provided as a separate teat preparation cup for performing the rinsing function and is designed as a part of the milking station or the teat cup is designed as a part of the milking station wherein the teat cup is designed both for performing the rinsing function and for performing the milking process.