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I have a friend who has a fenced-in yard and a huge canopy of trees where her ducks free-range during the day while she is out there. She wasn't 20' away from them and one of her ducks vanished. It's been a couple of weeks so she is quite sure she's not coming back. She thinks it has to be a...

I don't know what to say about the age. But I'd say probably fully feathered would be a good rule of thumb. Since my 2 tragedies, I've kept mine under extreme protection. That little white duck in that picture was a beautiful white runner drake that got killed by a falcon that swooped in under...

I know king snakes are constrictors and I would think rat snakes would be too since they go after the same food as the kings. I found a 6' king snake wrapped around my 4-week old duck. It had already squeezed the life out of it and was trying to eat it although I don't think that would have been...

Ponds usually have snapping turtles, at least around here they do and I imagine Texas is about the same. They will kill your little ones in a heartbeat as an appetizer before they get the big ones. Then the snakes. Where there is water there are snakes. I lost a 4-week old one to a king snake...

I personally think they are much too young to be let out to a pond or creek this young.

Unless you get ducks that can fly I don't think you'll have them for long. If you are going to not lock them up at night they will get snatched. You've already seen coyotes, raccoons, and bobcats and once those predators find them it's game over.