ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HOUSING LACTATING ANIMALS

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for keeping lactating animals in a loose-housing system. A milking stall (6) is provided between a resting (2) and a feeding (4) section of said system. First to third identification gates (20, 22, 24) respectively are arranged between the resting (2) and feeding (4) sections and a fourth identification gate (26) is arranged at an entrance gate (8) to the milking stall. By means of a transponder carried by each animal and a transponder reader located at each identification gate a control device (12) is activated. Said control device is associated with operating equipment related to each gate to manoeuvre the gates dependent on the transponder-related status of the animal. Therefore, in this system an animal is free to move in either direction through an optional identification gate (20, 22, 24, 26), so long the status of the animal corresponds to an "unlocked and/or open" state of the appropriate gate.