These are the most delicious birds ever. I read that they were bred in world war I by countries in Europe to improve the amount of eggs/meat of chickens. The breed was almost wiped out in world war II as the chickens were killed to feed soldiers. They lay huge brown eggs. I recently got a straight run of them but it looks like I mostly have cockerels. Take a look here for the wonderful history of the naked neck! http://breedsavers.blogspot.com/2011/05/naked-necks-chickens-that-looks-like.html
