Patent ID: 8434424

Claim:
A method for milking of milking animals in a milking station ( 9 ) which includes a milking machine ( 14 ) and a first feeding device ( 21 ), the method comprising the steps of: allowing a first animal to enter the milking station ( 9 ), via an entry of the milking station ( 9 ); feeding feed to the first animal in the milking station ( 9 ) using the first feeding device ( 21 ), the first feeding device arranged to supply the feed to the first animal and to be stopped to thereby stop supplying the feed to the first animal; milking the first animal in the milking station ( 9 ) using the milking machine ( 14 ), the milking step comprising i) drawing milk individually from each teat of the first animal, ii) measuring a respective draw of milk from each of the teats of the first animal, and iii) determining from the measured respective draws of milk from the teats of the first animal when the milking of at least an individual one of the teats is finished; and terminating the feeding of the first animal at a non-final stage of the milking step by stopping the first feeding device, in order to secure that the first animal has terminated consuming the feed when the milking step is finished, wherein, the non-final stage of the milking step occurs when said determining step determines that the milking of at least an individual one of the teats of the first animal is finished.