Rob do you have a area where you could put in some tight chicken wire fence say in a circle? Like 12 or 15 foot round. Put them in there then and let them grow for a while. That way nothing big can get at them and you can kinda watch em / feed em or whatever. Food would also come in through the fence.... Unless you have GBH issues then that's a whole other story? If you could get them in about a foot of water they would be fine for a while!!
If you cant I would say put them in. Yeah your gonna lose 80 to 90 percent of them maybe. That pond is pretty big and if there is BG in it more may survive than you think. But they are a must have as a maintenance fish. My pond is MUCH better once I put them in there!!!
RC
