Patent ID: 7316200

Claim:
A method of automatically disinfecting or sterilizing at least a portion of any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station provided with an animal identification device and located in an area, in which milking animals are allowed to move, wherein each of said milking animals visiting said any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station is identified, said method comprising: retrieving information regarding the health of each of said milking animals entering said any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station; ascertaining the health of each said milking animal based on the retrieved information; automatically disinfecting or sterilizing said at least a portion of any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station when it is ascertained that a milking animal entering said any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station has an infection that is capable of being transmitted to other milking animals, the disinfection or the sterilization being performed after that said infectious milking animal has left said any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station; and preventing further milking animals from to entering said any of a resting, a milking, or a feeding station until the disinfection or the sterilization has been performed.