Automatic milk separation
AssigneeDeLaval Holding AB
InventorEpke Bosma
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Abstract
An indicating system for use in a milking system including an automated milking machine with a method for detecting mastitis of a milking animal in an automated milking machine, includes a first device for automatically obtaining and determining a first indicator of mastitis; a second device for automatically obtaining and determining a second indicator of mastitis; a processor operatively connected to the first and second devices and configured for automatically i) evaluating the first and second indicators of mastitis, and ii) identifying, based on the result the evaluation of the first and second indicators of mastitis, the need for a third indicator of mastitis.
Claims13
A method for detecting mastitis of a milking animal in an automated milking machine, comprising:
- during milking of said milking animal, the milking machine automatically determining a first indicator of mastitis from milk extracted from said milking animal during said milking of said milking animal, the first indicator being a first type of measurement indicating mastitis;
- during said milking of said milking animal and from the milk extracted from said milking animal during said milking of said milking animal, the milking machine automatically determining a second indicator of mastitis, the second indicator being a second type of measurement indicating mastitis and different from the first type of measurement indicating mastitis;
- during said milking of said milking animal, automatically evaluating said first indicator of mastitis and said second indicator of mastitis for indication of mastitis of the milking animal;
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- identifying, based on the result from said step of evaluating, whether there is a need for a third indicator of mastitis to detect mastitis of the milking animal, wherein the third indicator is a third type of measurement indicating mastitis and is different from the first and second types of measurement indicating mastitis.
A method for detecting mastitis of a milking animal, comprising:
- during milking of said milking animal, automatically determining a first indicator of mastitis from milk extracted from said milking animal during said milking of said milking animal, the first indicator being a first type of measurement indicating mastitis, said first type of measurement being other than a somatic cell count measurement;
- during said milking of said milking animal and from the milk extracted from said milking animal during said milking of said milking animal, automatically determining a second indicator of mastitis, the second indicator being a second type of measurement indicating mastitis and different from the first type of measurement indicating mastitis, said second type of measurement being other than the somatic cell count measurement;
- during the milking of said milking animal, automatically evaluating said first indicator of mastitis and said second indicator of mastitis for indication of mastitis of the milking animal;
- identifying, based on the result from said step of evaluating, whether there is a need for a third indicator of mastitis to detect mastitis of the milking animal, wherein said third indicator of mastitis is determined by performing, during said milking of said animal, the somatic cell count measurement on milk extracted from said milking animal during said milking of said milking animal;
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- making a mastitis detection determination based on said third indicator of mastitis.
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