My Memphis (see siggy) gets continual ear infections ... and the doc told me that since it is reoccurant it is probably a food allergy ... so we cut chicken out of his diet to see if it was it so maybe what ever you arefeeding him is...
I had alot of symptoms when starting .... she also gve me lunesta at the same time ... so i never had sleep issues but i did have some major weird side effects ... dizziness....feeling like i was going to pass out ... ad just felt weird...
use a black tea bag ... let the tea seep (sp?) and then take the bag and put it on his eye ...it has to be 100% black tea though ... Early Grey makes a black tea
I usually wipe the eye clean with the tea bag several times a day then...
We only cook in cast iron ... i cant imagine uing anything else ... anyway I would clean it (just water NO SOAP), scrape any debri off it, and then what i do is either use a little veggie oil on a paper towel and rub it until it is...
I have chickens also and I take my pups out with me to feed them. They stay outside of the coop when i go in and watch me ... I have not seen any aggression towards the chickens