Milking system

A computer readable medium (M) having a non-transitory program recorded thereon, where the program when loaded into a computer, causes the computer to function to:

• identify an animal (A);
• provide access for the animal (A) to the milking machine (110) only when a set of milk permission criteria are fulfilled for the animal (A);
• control the milking machine (110) to automatically extract milk from a milking animal (A) present at the milking machine (110);
• control a cell counter unit (130) to take at least one sample from the milk that is extracted from the animal (A),
• determine a milk quality parameter (Qcc) by registering a true number of somatic cells per unit volume in said at least one sample, and in response to the quality parameter (Qcc) assign a milk permission interval (MP) determining an earliest point in time after a currently completed milking procedure at which point in time the set of milk permission criteria for the animal (A) are again enabled to be fulfilled.

A milking system, comprising:

• a milking machine (110) configured to automatically extract milk from a milking animal (A) during a milking procedure;
• an identification arrangement (120) configured to identify an animal (A) and to provide said animal (A) with access to the milking machine (110) only when a set of milk permission criteria are fulfilled for that animal (A);
• a cell counter unit (130) configured to determine a quality parameter (Qcc) reflecting a somatic cell concentration for the milk extracted from said animal (A), the cell counter unit (130) comprising
• i) a sampling unit (210) configured to take plural samples of the milk being extracted from said animal (A), each sample of the milk taken at a different phase of the milking from a beginning of the milking procedure through an end of the milking procedure, the plural samples being combined into a combined sample representative of the milk having been extracted from said sample, and
• ii) a counter unit (220, 230) configured to determine the quality parameter (Qcc) by registering a true number of somatic cells per unit volume in said combined sample the cell counter unit (130) at the completion of the milking procedure of an animal (A);
• and
• a control unit (140) configured to i) receive the quality parameter (Qcc), ii) determine an actual milking interval (TA) between a latest milking procedure and an immediately prior milking procedure, and iii) in response to the quality parameter (Qcc) and the actual milking interval (TA), in real time assign a milk permission interval (MP) determining an earliest point in time after the latest milking procedure at which point in time the set of milk permission criteria for said animal (A) are again enabled to be fulfilled.