Ducks ate Silicone sealant???

[Miss Lydia]

Do you have the tube it came in @Jemima Duck ? I would do a flush just to be on the safe side.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flushes-for-aiding-in-toxin-removal.700526/ Put it in their drinking water and for which ever one you use be sure to follow directions completely.

 

[FortCluck]

Silicone dries in about 4 to 6 hours, if you catch it before it dries detergents can work, from what i'm reading it sounds like the product in question has not dried completely in quite some time and is red/pink. Both of these make me wonder if it's actually silicone at all.

The one I use dries in an hour and is clear. It gets really tacky around 15 minutes. I got it at Lowe's.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

I just think doing something is better than nothing

 

[Miss Lydia]

I maybe a worry wort but eating just a small amount of something like that would worry me. And most of us have the ingredients for flushes on hand. As long as directions are followed it can't hurt. I'd advise having Activated charcoal in your med kit too. I use it for myself my dogs it's a good one.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I would use dawn too, but because it has a picture of a duckling on it.

they use it after oil spills to clean birds

 

[Henry&Friends]

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they use it after oil spills to clean birds

I know, they clean other wildlife with it too. I’m just saying, if I had ducks, and had to give a duck a bath, I would use the soap with a (cute) duck on it.

 

[Jemima Duck]

Thank you all for your responses! I've just been out doing the daily duck chores, the white runner is her normal greedy self currently. All of the duck's food and water containers have been washed. I should still
have the bottle of sealant I think, I'll have to look. The white runner is also still covered in the sealant, I'll bring her in for a wash with my ducklings after this.

I think the reason the sealant wouldn't dry is that it was put on very thick (I thought my father would have known what he was doing, I should have trusted my gut instinct ). Oddly enough, it's mostly dry now that a lot of it was scraped off.
While changing the duck bedding, I saw a strange wiggly thing that I thought was a poop, but had the texture and reddish colour of the sealant... There's no way the ducks could have made it the shape it was, but on the other hand I'm not sure how long ducks take to digest food...

 

[Jemima Duck]

Oh shoot, I found the bottle and it's actually Acrylic window and door sealant. Apparently the silicone sealants were already hard when my father tried to use them.

I'm not sure if I can do a flush now as it has been a while since they would have eaten it, and also they've been eating food all day

I'm panicking even more now, aa

 

[Duckfarmer1]

Do the flush.

 

[Jemima Duck]

An update: the duck in question seems perfectly normal, even these few days later... I hope I'm out of the woods now in regards to my runner's health.

Thank you everyone for your replies, I really appreciate them!