You are referring to a feather shuttlecock. It contains 16 goose feathers all in all. Since you are just asking for the number of feathers, then I guess my answer is already complete.
Feathers
Many species of bird fledglings have grey and white feathers.
They are about 5000 feathers, approximately.
Thunderbird
All of them.
Bird feathers.
It is derived from the place where the game was played by British riches, Badminton House. The former name of the sport is battledore shuttlecock.
Down comes from young chicks.
Disease - birds do not normally loose their feathers. When they change them it is called moult.Moulting is a process (like shedding in mammals) done regularly by birds, to replace old feathers with new, healthy feathers. This is normal. When a bird loses many feathers at once, it is usually due to the bird plucking out its own feathers OR a condition called French Moult, for which there is no cure.All birds may or may not lose their feathers. It is only when this happens to them and or they die.
A snowy owl has fluffy white feathers :)
If the tail feathers have dark horizontal stripes, it's probably a Blue Jay.
It would help a great deal to know what part of the world the feathers come from. If it was in the US, the chances are good -- but not certain -- that it was some kind of oriole.