An installation for automatically milking an animal provided with a box for containing an animal to be milked and with a robot arm for automatically connecting teat cups to the teats of the animal, an animal recognition for supplying an animal recognition signal representative of the identity of the animal, a computer with a memory and an input device for inputting animal data relating to the animal into the memory. The animal recognition signal is automatically linkable in the memory with the animal data by operating the input device.
