US 12,133,507 B2
Livestock dry off method and device
Rotem Rabinovitz, Netanya (IL)
Assigned to S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) LIMITED, Netanya (IL)
Filed by S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) LIMITED, Netanya (IL)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,694.
Application 18/510,694 is a continuation of application No. 17/283,561, granted, now 11,864,529, previously published as PCT/IL2019/051111, filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/743,567, filed on Oct. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0114873 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. A01J 7/04 (2006.01); A01J 5/01 (2006.01); A01K 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01J 7/04 (2013.01) [A01J 5/01 (2013.01); A01K 13/001 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically drying-off a dairy animal, comprising steps of:
upon criteria for gradual drying-off being met:
determining an average milking duration for said dairy animal;
for said average milking duration being greater than a predetermined milking duration:
setting a start date for gradual drying-off as a current milking; and,
determining, from said start date and a predetermined drying-off period, a dry-off date;
wherein said gradual drying-off comprises:
for each current milking of said dairy animal until a dry-off date at which a predetermined drying-off period ends:
determining a milking duration;
machine milking said dairy animal;
measuring a time spent milking in real time during milking; and,
at such time as said time spent milking is greater than said milking duration, stopping said current milking.