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.
birdy
Easy, Badminton Feather Shuttlecocks are for professionals Plastic are for amateurs.
A shuttlecock is really light! It feels like a feather, just a bit heavier because of its head. The Yonex brand feather shuttlecock weighs 5 grams. A badminton shuttlecocks weighs around 4.75 - 5.50 grams.
There are two different types of shuttle. You can get plastic or feather. Both are made with a cork head. The flight is either made up from plastic or goose feathers, depending on the type of shuttle.
Shuttlecocks characteristically are light weight and are thereby affected by the wind. Thus professional badminton is played indoors as even the slightest breeze can effect the direction of the shuttlecock.
yes.
in old style and very good quality shuttlecocks they use real feathers. Most though are made of plastic
Duck
Hen Feather.
This is indeed a very interesting question. Come to think that will goose feather reproduce if only part of it is trimmed/ removed? I guess they will not. Also, also since they are so many goose being slaughtered daily and why not salvage the feather for shuttlecocks? Geese and ducks molt their feathers every year, naturally, all by themselves, so you could follow your pet geese or ducks around and collect the left wing feathers as they dropped out and use them to make your own shuttlecocks if you wanted to make some that involved not killing the birds. The feathers ARE harvested from slaughtered ducks and geese and used for many uses, shuttlecocks included, the geese are not killed to get the feathers, the feathers are removed to get to the meat. The shuttlecock manufacturers do get the left wing feathers from the meat processing factories.
It is said that the most similar form of badminton was originated in ancient China, some years before Christ. It has evolved over the years, and the actual rules and regulations of the game were set in Europe around the 19th century.