A METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY MILKING ANIMALS AND A FULLY AUTOMATIC MILKING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH A MILKING ROBOT, SAID MILKING MACHINE BEING SUITABLE FOR PERFORMING SAME

摘要

In a method of automatically milking animals that areable to move freely in an area intended therefor and to visitindividually a milking parlour comprising a fully automaticmilking machine provided with a milking robot, any animal isadmitted to the milking parlour as any point of time when themilking parlour is ready for milking an animal. At each visitof an animal to the milking parlour there is effected acleaning of the animal's udder and/or a massage to stimulatethe animal's udder and/or there is tried to connect the teatcups of the milking robot to the animal's udder and to milk theanimal. In this way it is achieved that the animals do notvisit the milking parlour too often of their free will.