alrighty well lets get with last months lore doodle and talk about...

Juklir and Rapsar, a Tale of two "chickens"

As while these two animals are quite different they do share a few traits in common that are important to the domesticated animals of the DragonScape

So lets start with Juklir, the Draconically mutated chickens

As Juklir are direct descendents of chickens! Being birds means they weren't õndemified so much as just "mutated" by õndemic resonance, often changing their body in strange ways. This sort of phenomena is common in the American plana, particularly for birds, reptiles, amphibians invertibrates of all sorts. They're already "somewhat õndemic" so they just mutate. In this case chicken became the Juklir, still recognizeably chickens! Though with some new features. Longer skink like, feathered bodies, six legs, but at the end of the day they are still chickens more or less

Fierce omnivores who will eat just about anything organic that moves who lay a lot of eggs.

So onto breeds

Arid Juklir are the most familiarly chickens, boasting bright feathers to keep the heat off their body and a sort of "canvas" of feathers on their back to help further with the sun. They are omnivores known to eat anything from a rotting corpso to grains and grass to bugs. They are also very water hardy and can last weeks without large amounts of water.

Arid Juklir tend to stay an semi arid steppes and grasslands more than true deserts. Where they can graze on the vast plants and grasses and insects of those regions

Arctic Juklir are the opposite, deep black feathers and wide feet hidden under their dense feathers. Their feet particularly are very well equipped for digging into snow or hard soil as a lot of their diet comes more from starchy roots, but again they will likely eat anything they come across.

Artic Juklir are most known to be found in Tundras above all, where starchy tubers and bugs during the warm seasons are easily found. Though they are known to regularly migrate to warmer climates as the local seasons chill

Tropical Juklir are a bit stranger, boasting a prehensile tail, no feathers, and very grabby gecko like hands that allow them to easily climb trees, with them living largely aboreal lives grazing tropical trees and pecking the wood for various tropical bugs and eggs that they can eat.

Tropical juklir are most found in dense tropical forests and rainforests, as well as bamboo forests, where they tend to thrive

and lastly Temperate Juklir are perhaps the most boring, Dense green feathers that help them blend in to temperate prairies and grasslands, they tend to be the fastest of all juklir and are also capable climbers!

Temperate drekir are prairie wyrms, they tend to not like dense forests and can mostly be found amongst the open fields and meadows
As for alpines At least for a long time Juklir don't come about to exist in alpine environments, There is not necessarily a breed for every environment for every animal, same rule applies for the Rapsar. Speaking of!

Moving onto Rapsar

Rapsar, unlike Juklir are a natively õndemic species that is most associated with Logáu, but do exist on many planar. They are herdlike herbivorous snakes that are knwon to travel and slither together in such tight herds that local terms to describe a herd of Rapsar often translate to "Rivers" of rapsar

They are pure herbivores and regardless of breed are well known to eat almost any plant they can get their grazers into. Highly social they are pretty easily domesticated as it doesn't take much effort to manipulate a Rap river to go where you want it to, or corral it or whatnot.

As for their breeds

Arid Rapsar are the most common as the largest populations of wild rapsar hail from Western Logáu. They are scaly, with a distinct squared pattern along their back and a heat sink fin/crest on their head.

Like all rapsar they are armed with a stinger for self defense that doesn't have a stinger, rather it just relies on sheer stabbing and trauma to force back predators.

Arid Rapsar are mostly widespread across the open reaches of Western Logáu, though can also be found often herded across the foothills of the mountains in Western Logáu.

Arctic Rapsar are a simple case. Hot blooded, furred, still very slithery snakes that are mostly associated with southern Logáu. They tend to live more off of the arctic lichens and fungi of arctic regions rather than plants specifically.

Their stinger has a gland that is known to produce and extrude fire mana. Which is often instinctively used by arctic rapsar to both warm up their rivers when they are resting and grazing, as well as to fend off predators.

Most arctic rapsar can be found in nature in the Cordilleras and tundras of the DragonScape. Though of course herdrakes are known to herd them all over

Tropical Rapsar are a rather strange sort, They are aquatic. They are slow moving on land and tend to rather prefer grazing coastal aquatic seaweeds and other underwater plants. Though that said they are not fish, they do need to resurface often and regularly and you can often find tropical rapsar on the beaches relaxing, as well as to lay their eggs. OFten domesticating them requires a lot more intensive infrastructure than other breeds of rapsar
As said, tropical rapsar are almost exclusively a coastal species, coastlines, lagoons, rivers, but mostly coastal waters

And lastly Temperate rapsar are simple, brown lizards with whiskers that help them feel around their environments. As most Rapsar are associated with the central wetlands of eastern logáu or similar environments.

They are often grazers of rotting plant material, wood namely but are also known to graze on reeds and other swampy plants.

They are perhaps the most environmentally contained as they are the least nomadic of the rapsar breeds mostly preferring to only move from one wetland to another as they exhaust the local plant supply which can sometimes take years. Making them a common staple of sedentary eastern logáu communities

their stinger of course is just a dagger, unlike the arctic rapsar for protection from predators

A tale of two "chickens"

Of course both of these species are very important as both are heavily domesticated by drekir and ormer pretty early on. With the earliest examples of such domestication happening as early as 30 years on each plana post awakening. Juklir are easy enough, they are mostly domesticated and so its mostly about recognizing them and corraling them. etc.

Rapsar are something that took more time, originally being domesticated by Sogaluns from the pre sivilão days, it would take the better part of a century to really redomesticate them and learn how to herd them. But eventjally many cultures do

And while both species are very different, they both provide very much the same benefit.

eggs

Drekir can eat eggs, they can live off of them, ormer can also eat eggs and make a lot of use from them.

Both Juklir and Rapsar are known to periodically lay unfertilized eggs and fertilized eggs, often multiple in a months amount of time. So when you get dozens of them together, month to month they can wind up laying a lot of eggs, and that is something that, like with humans, dragons can certainly take advantage of those eggs for their own subsistence and livelihood! Often raising, feeding and protecting their respective animals in exchange for those many eggs which they themselves can eat.

Of course the relative eggs are different, Juklir with their more familiar chicken like eggs and Rapsar with their far more leathery softshelled eggs. But either way they are perfectly edible! With either species, when the animals are properly cared for, they can help sustain large populations of drekir and even ormer and are often a go to. Usually Juklir are more associated with sedentary communities, Coops in which villagers regularly throw foraged grasses, insects, the organs of animals that they don't want to eat, etc. into. Every now and again heading into the coop to gather eggs.

Rapsar are often a lot more herdlike and so are generally favored by seminomadic people, who can herd them around to feed them and then corral them at the end of the day. With the following day spent gathering the eggs those rapsar had laid. That said there are definitely ways to raise raspar completely sedentary. Temperate and Aquatic breeds are somewhat easier to do so with the proper enclosures but there are definitely completely sedentary rapsar farms.

Of course there is also meat. Though much like the real world, you don't usually wanna kill an animal like a Juk or a Rap as frankly, they're more valuable alive than as meat. But sometimes you either have to slaughter one thats on its last legs (figuratively with the rapsar). Or you may desire to slaughter one for cultural reasons, such as to welcome a tribal council into your village with meat as a show of respect and hospitality.

There are also the other products, feathers, stingers, teeth and bones that would no doubt be very important for all sorts of things. From Clothing and knives, to broth and jewelry. But overall its the eggs. Egg farming is one of the few ways drekir and ormer can sustainably source protein for larger populations. While not the only way, depending on your region and landscape and local fauna and flora it is sometimes the best way.

Of course all that said, wouldn't be surprised if some drek somewhere were to have a crisis of being an egg laying species eating the eggs of another egg laying species... but you can't knock easy protein

so yeah

Two egg laying creatures of the same coin