7 Milking equipment and milking components thereof comprising claw-type teat cups, teat cup assemblers, teat cup washers, and teat cup stoppers, pulsator and pulsation controllers, receiver jars, pipeline milk valves; Vacuum systems for milking cows comprising vacuum pumps, variable frequency drive, balance tank and vacuum regulator, vacuum sensor, and part and fittings therefor; Milk transfer system for interim heat removal from milk comprising stainless steel tubing, receiver for milk, and milk pump and variable frequency drive, plate cooler, milking unit, drain valves and a vacuum trap safety valve; Clean in place, CIP, and sanitation systems comprising rubber jetters and jetter storage holders that connect to the milking unit, sinks for dispensing water, water diverter valve, washer controls for dispensing chemicals and chemical preparations and air injectors, all of the foregoing used for cleaning of milking units, milk transfer systems, and milk storage tanks; Cow traffic systems comprising power operated crowd gate that keeps minimum spaces between cows and pushes them toward to the milking stall, milking stalls that position the cows for milking, animal sort gates for separating cows; Robotic milking systems comprising milking stall, detacher, milk meter, computer hardware and software that controls the operations of the milking robot, automatically attaching milking units to cows, dispensing feed to cows, monitoring cows during milking, and exiting the cow when milking is completed; Automatic cow traffic system for the purposes of animal identification and monitoring comprising radio frequency controls, antennas, transponders, and hardware and software that is used for her management