An arrangement for milking a plurality of milking animals comprises anautomated milking system (11) provided with a milking robot (13) forautomatically milking a milking animal； a milking system (15) provided forbatchwise milking of multiple milking animals； an identification arrangement(19, 21) provided for identifying each of the plurality of milking animalsprior to being milked； decision means (23) connected to the identificationarrangement for deciding, for each of the plurality of milking animals,whether that milking animal should be milked by the automated milking systemor by the milking system for batchwise milking； and means connected (25) tothe decision means for guiding each of the plurality of milking animals to theautomated milking system or to the milking system for batchwise milkingdepending on the decision made for that milking animal.
