About Italian Naked Neck Chickens

Italian Naked Neck, or Collo nudo italiana, chickens comes from Veneto (North-East of Italy). They probably originally came from Africa.

The hens are excellent layers and the eggs are large and white (160-180 eggs a year, 58-62 g each). Their meat is delicate with thin skin. Their subcutaneous and abdominal fat is nearly absent.

They are very rustic and perfect for outdoor rearing, but poorly adapted to industrial production.

In the US they are known as Polish Frizzle and the varieties are the same of the Polish. Recently they have been re-imported to Italy from the U.S.

Source: Agraria.org