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Yes, it is an unusual and endangered breed. I don't know why, perhaps people got tired of waiting 1-2 years for the white face to come in? I love that they come in bantam and LF, I prefer LF myself, but if I got into small chickens, I'd have WFBS bantams, too! Glad someone near you is keeping them up, seems bantams are not as endangered as LF, many hatcheries sell the bantams.
These are my favorite breed of chicken and I spent many years with them. Large fowl. It does not take the face a couple of years or even only a year to come in at all. Cockerels and pullets hatched in April and May will go in to the winter with well developed faces. The face is not just a great big lobe like a Minorca. The lobe extends downward and actually meets under the wattles. We all used to call that the bib. Easier to see on the males and especially if handled but the effect is that of a bib. And it can be quite a nice big bib by October/November. The best ones will start out showing turquoise blue faces and not pink. The white creeps in and everything starts to grow downward. Smoothness is desired as is a thick, heavy leathery substance to the skin forming the face/bib. As they haven't been bred enough of late a detail like the red pencil mark over the eye, usually on a male, would be tolerated on an otherwise good and useful bird. At least in my yards. They can be a bit flighty as very young chicks but as mentioned are smart. And they stay smart and become extremely companionable. Give them lots of room and hopefully the ability to be outside. As soon as they learn that they can get away from you they decide they don't need or want to. I do not know why they are so little and sometimes so badly bred. They might just not appeal to everyone. They are unique as to appearance and character. As a young teen an old man I knew who bred them said they would become my favorites. They did, by far, and it was their great brains and overall temperament that got to me before their appearance did. So yes, hard to understand why more do not work with them.