[1] Vanaraja is aimed a rural communities[2] where it can be reared in backyard on natural, scavenged food with minimal supplementation.
[3] It produces eggs and meat based on rearing and feeding practices.
Important features of this breed are multi-color feather pattern, immunity to disease, requiring less nutrition, growing faster, and producing more eggs.
They each produce up to 110 eggs per year, and weigh 1.0 to 1.2 kilograms (2.2 to 2.6 lb) at age 6 to 6+1⁄2 months.
Vanaraja are mainly found in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and are supplied to 26 states of India from ICAR-DPR, Hyderabad.