The invention relates to a method for positioning an individually metered out food portion on an animal cage arranged in a row of animal cages for fur animals by means of a motorized feed cart comprising wheels and a feed container, comprising the steps of: - moving said feed cart along a row of animal cages, - providing an output from an encoder corresponding to the angular turning of one of said wheels to a control unit, - determining that the feed cart has reached a given position corresponding to a given cage from said output and a database of information related to positions of animal cages and desired size of food portions to each animal cage, and - controlling the feed cart to metering out the desired food portions at a suitable food delivering place at the given animal cage according to the information in said database.
