About Pritchett's Small Pets

Pritchett's Small Pets grew from years of hands-on experience with poultry, feeder animals, reptiles, breeding projects, and the simple habit of wanting to understand how things work.

Where It Started

Danny had been working with poultry for years before the Pritchett's Small Pets name existed. The poultry side of the operation traces back to 2004. In 2005, he began breeding crickets for his own reptiles, and by 2011 he had expanded into raising mealworms as well.

The business itself began taking shape in 2012 and became known as Pritchett's Small Pets in 2013. What started as a collection of personal animal interests gradually became a family project built around breeding, raising, learning, selling, and sharing what worked.

A Family Homestead

Danny and Brittany built Pritchett's Small Pets around the animals and projects that are part of their everyday life. Over the years, that has included poultry, quail, feeder insects, small livestock, gardening, incubation, breeding equipment, and a long list of do-it-yourself projects created to solve practical problems around the farm.

Breeding With a Purpose

Today, one of our strongest interests is poultry genetics and selective breeding. We enjoy working with established breeds, preserving useful traits, studying inheritance, maintaining breeding lines, and developing projects where each generation is selected with a clear goal in mind.

Autosexing poultry, heritage genetics, production traits, egg color, size, temperament, breed type, and practical usefulness are all subjects that keep us learning. We believe a breeding program should be more than simply producing chicks; it should have records, goals, selection standards, and a reason behind each mating.

Why We Share What We Learn

Some of our best lessons have come from projects that worked exactly as planned. Others came from mistakes, unexpected results, and figuring out a better way the next time. We believe both are worth sharing.

That is why this website is becoming more than a storefront. We want it to be a useful resource for poultry keepers, breeders, homesteaders, and DIY-minded people looking for practical information about the things we actually work with.

Always Learning, Building & Improving

There is almost always another incubator, brooder, cage, feeder, waterer, breeding pen, garden project, genetics experiment, or animal-related idea being tested around here. Homesteading has taught us to make the most of what we have, build things when it makes sense, keep good records, and never assume there is nothing left to learn.

Thank you for visiting Pritchett's Small Pets and following along with what we raise, build, preserve, and learn.

Danny & Brittany