They lay a respectable number of light brown eggs, and are considered desirable for meat production because they need less plucking and they have a meaty body.

This breed has approximately half the feathers of other chickens, making it resistant to hot weather and easier to pluck.

[2] The naked-neck trait which characterizes this breed is controlled by an incompletely dominant allele (Na) located near the middle of Chromosome 3.

[8] Scientific studies have indicated that the naked-neck gene (Na) improves breast size and reduces heat stress in chickens of non-broiler breeds which are homozygous for the trait.

[9] Additionally, in tropical climates if the naked-neck trait (Na) is bred into broiler strains it has been shown to facilitate lower body temperature, increased body weight gain, better feed conversion ratios and carcass traits compared to normally feathered broilers.