Animal husbandry – Milkers – With automatic control
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-08
2001-07-24
Price, Thomas (Department: 3643)
Animal husbandry
Milkers
With automatic control
C119S840000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06263832
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method as described in the preamble of claim
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. The invention further relates to an implement which is suitable for performing the method. The invention also relates to a feeding stall which is adapted for being used in the method.
Such a method is known. When, while applying such a method, an animal wishes to visit the milking parlour, it is identified and, with the aid of a time-dependent individual milking parameter for the animal, there is decided on the basis of an admittance criterion (for admitting the animal to the milking parlour) and/or a milking criterion (for connecting the teat cups of the milking robot to the animal's udder) whether or not the animal should be milked. When the milking parameter does not meet the criterion, the animal is either not admitted to the milking parlour or is removed therefrom.
The milking parlour comprises a feeding station in which e.g. concentrate is supplied to an animal during milking. The feeding station serves primarily as a lure means to stimulate the animals to present themselves sufficiently often for being milked. The further feeding station in the separate feeding stall serves to supply additional feed/concentrate and/or silage to animals which do not eat enough feed/concentrate and/or silage during milking in the milking parlour.
The known method has the disadvantage that animals sometimes eat so much concentrate in the further feeding station that the perspective of being supplied with concentrate at the milking robot is no longer attractive enough to them for being lured sufficiently often to the milking parlour. As a result thereof it is not possible to milk these animals sufficiently often. Implementing in an analogous manner an admittance criterion at the feeding station by means of an individual feeding parameter for each animal cannot solve this problem, because this measure does not take into account the animals' visits to the milking parlour with the integrated feeding station.
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Maasland M.V. A dutch limited liability Co.
Penrose Lucas Albright
Price Thomas
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