When we first started in this business, we ran Herfords too. We leased
a place that was part of the Northern Wyoming Hereford Ranch, owned
by Steve Smith in Iowa with a Vice President from Wyoming. Anyhow,
we had some of those freckle-faced ones like you pictured and as I
remember, they were some of the best cows. We had one cow that was
a marker cow, that we called "old ugly." She had a lot of topknot and
when the wind blew, it stood right straight up!! Anyhow, the year she
came up dry, I went to the house and cried my eyes out.
The first Black Angus bulls we bought, were two to breed to heifers.
Of course that was before many records were kept, bw's, etc and we
got some c-sections out of that cross.
Your herefords are some of the best I've ever seen, I do believe.