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Vanaraja

Vanaraja is a dual-purpose chicken variety developed by the Project Directorate on Poultry in Hyderabad, India. Vanaraja is aimed a rural communities where it can be reared in back yards on natural, scavenged food with minimal supplementation. It produces eggs and meat based on rearing and feeding practices. Important features of this breed are multi-color feather pattern, immunity to disease, perform with less nutrition, grow faster and produce more eggs, produce brown eggs like local hens.

Vanaraja give their best performance when reared free range. They each produce up to 110 eggs per year, and weigh at age 6 to months. Vaccination of native birds along with Vanaraja is recommended. Excess body weight may reduce egg production. Vanaraja are mainly found in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.