Column: Breed differences

What the text books don’t tell you about: Do breed differences matter? The textbooks are mostly silent on this subject. Anyway, as I see it – the answer is both yes and no. Yes , because there have always been differences. Less now, but still there. And no, because it is the producer’s responsibility to match any differences to his own circumstances, as I will go on to explain. First let me define ‘breed’ – now an old-fashioned term. Saddleback, Large White, Yorksh