Letting them grow to adulthood while giving them an opportunity to experience a decent sort of "chicken existence" (i.e. able to indulge in natural chicken-like behaviours etc.) definitely seems preferable to just killing them at birth. But killing them at birth is definitely better than forcing them to stay alive in cruelly constrained/unnatural conditions. Better still is preventing their growth into baby male chickens (which presumably do have the capacity for pain/some sort of awareness of existence - as I noted in my other reply, can bond and interact with humans) in the first place.
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Letting them grow to adulthood while giving them an opportunity to experience a decent sort of "chicken existence" (i.e. able to indulge in natural chicken-like behaviours etc.) definitely seems preferable to just killing them at birth. But killing them at birth is definitely better than forcing them to stay alive in cruelly constrained/unnatural conditions. Better still is preventing their growth into baby male chickens (which presumably do have the capacity for pain/some sort of awareness of existence - as I noted in my other reply, can bond and interact with humans) in the first place.