Patent ID: 7987815

Claim:
A method of feeding an animal in a feeding box, the method comprising, in no particular order, at least actions of a) registering presence of the animal in the feeding box; b) closing the feeding box and locking the feeding box in such a way that access to the feeding box is impeded for an animal outside the feeding box; c) supplying feed to the animal in the feeding box in a chosen eating period of time, wherein the method further comprises: allowing an initially chosen eating period of time to elapse, the initially chosen eating period of time beginning immediately after closing the feeding box, providing a first waiting time span chosen contiguously to said eating period of time, selectively unlocking the feeding box such that the animal is given the possibility of leaving the feeding box while access to the feeding box remains impeded for an animal outside the feeding box, and in the case that the animal does not leave the feeding box within the waiting time span, repeating at least the action of c) of supplying feed.