The last case of pink-eye I saw in a Hereford was in the sixties. I speak for my area alone. Back then, i think pigment around the eyes was not permited by the regestry. Now it is. However, I was literally SHOCKED by a Hereford newsletter from up north at how MUCH pigment some breeders are going for. I didn't like it, almost a goggle-eyed look...I've seen nothing like that here in Texas. .....Anyway, when you drive through cattle country or go to a sale, where do you think all those white faces, or motley faces come from....Herefords. If Herefords are so aweful, as so many think, why are there so many white faces? And there is something to be said for temperment...I am a woman approaching 50 years of age..... I run this ranch. I can't be having all those crazy breeds hurting me all the time. I got something banged up on me most the time as it is anyway and it's from things other than the cattle! A Cane Brake rattler 4 foot long dang near got me the other day (I won!) I need mellow and I don't need "ear" or "black hide". Some of my cattle have "ear", but I don't particularly desire it. It brings too much agility with it. I don't much care for my neighbor's cattleguard jumpers for instance. My Hereford bull couldn't get over a cattleguard if his life depended on it.