Feather growth

Hi Joop,
We re-homed 14 ex-batts last year in June.  Sadly over the months 3 have died but the others have flourished.  We're just waiting for Penny to finish regrowing her feathers and then we have a full bunch of feathery friends.  It's taken over a year but they've gone from being oven ready to beautiful girls. 
I guess the most important thing is to make sure that they don't have problems with red mite, lice, etc. and are being fed with a good quality food so that they can put all their energies in to growing new feathers. 
Oh, and enjoy them!  Mine went from being scared to come out of the house or run to running riot around the village on the odd time they have escaped from the garden.  They all come running when I call them and spend hours trying to work out how to get in patio doors.  I wouldn't swap them for the world.

Feathers will probably grow back around their natural moult time so it may be you have to wait 12 months.

I think strangely they like to moult in winter They are boiling all summer then when they need their feathers off they come!!

Most of mine have decided that summer seems like a good time to moult.  I'm thinking of saving the feathers to stuff a mattress with!

As they originate from the Jungle fowl in Asia most still moult around the time they would have done originally - sadly this tends to coincide with our Autumn and Winter.