Patent ID: 8087382

Claim:
A method for managing milking animals, the method comprising: determining milking suitability indexes for milking animals approaching a first or a second booth; comparing the milking suitability indexes against an independent suitability threshold; permitting only milking animals having determined milking suitability indexes above the suitability threshold to enter the first and the second booth; comparing a milking suitability index of a first milking animal in the first booth and a milking suitability index of a second milking animal in the second booth against each other; permitting one of the first and the second milking animal with a more milking-suitable of the compared milking suitability indexes to exit the respective first or second booth and enter a milking stall to be milked by a milking apparatus; and retaining the other of the first and the second milking animal with a less milking-suitable of the compared milking suitability indexes within the respective first or second milking booth.