A
system for managing a group of dairy animals to be milked fully automatically, where the dairy animals go through a
lactation cycle comprising phases of calving, inmilking, producing milk, and being dry. The
system includes a computer executing program instructions for recording information and
processing data indicating a division of the group of dairy animals into subgroups of a plurality of dairy animals, an
insemination period determined per subgroup within which the dairy animals of the subgroup concerned are to be inseminated, which
insemination period is so short that substantially all dairy animals in the subgroup concerned go simultaneously through the
lactation cycle, and a separation of pregnant dairy animals of at least one of the subgroups in a separate area, around the beginning of the being dry phase of the subgroup concerned. The
system also includes at least one
milking robot for automatically
milking the dairy animals, operatively connected to the computer for receiving first instructions from the computer for
milking the dairy animals in the non-separated subgroups, and second instructions from the computer for milking the dairy animals in the separated subgroup in the separate area.