2022 - Good Morning, Afternoon, Night

I went to a village school where a farmer gifted us some eggs to hatch each year, and then they lived in a play shop with lights for a couple of weeks. However, the chicks went back to the farm once they were ready to free range. I'm sure the males didn't live a long life, because they generally don't, but they would have been eaten rather than just destroyed. It seems ridiculous and cruel to hatch out eggs without having a plan about what to do with the chicks.