What are you talking about, $14 in 2017 is not bad compared to one person who got eggs off of me cheap and was getting $25 for day old chicks and $100 to $200 per dozen many years ago. So $14 is not out of reality.
The same gal that Harry is referring to bought birds from me too. She wasn't a true breeder from my understanding, but rather bought birds, promoted a lot and sold at high prices and then faded from the scene. She wasn't the only one that bought from me at very reasonable prices and sold at very inflated ones.
Cackle is just getting started with the LF lavenders and it takes a few years to develop two strains of a variety to then cross and produce feather sexable chicks. They also have a limit of 9 lavender chicks per order, so their flocks aren't yet big enough to fill orders for 25 or more and with limited numbers they may have a higher price per chick now than in the future (I think).