Patent ID: 7370604

Claim:
A method of milking animals using a movable milking platform, the method comprising: providing an area where the animals are allowed to move freely; setting the movable milking platform in motion; allowing an animal access from the area to the milking platform; supplying a quantity of feed to the animal on the milking platform; milking the animal on the milking platform during a milking period; providing the animal a span of time on the milking platform in which the animal is not milked, the span of time having a magnitude that amounts to at least approximately half the milking period; controlling the speed of movement of the milking platform at least partially on the basis of a feed consumption duration of a selected animal present on the milking platform, such that the span of time has such a magnitude that the animal is provided a sufficient time to substantially complete its quantity of feed during its stay on the platform, the span of time being smaller than 75 minutes; and subsequently allowing the animal exit from the milking platform.