Polymorph and Feat effects


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Do you keep adjustments from Feats while polymorphed?

I found that "you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form" as well as form-dependant class features.

The issue is most feats aren't labeled as Ex, Su, or otherwise.

A few specific examples I'm curious about:

Bloatmage Initiate -
This feat makes you fat, improving your spell casting while giving you a medium load.
It changes your form and seems 'form-dependant' but it isn't a class feature nor an Ex or Su ability.
So do you stay bloated in your polymorphed forms? O.o

Angel Wings - (aasimar)
This grants you wings but also has the effect of giving you Fly as a class skill.
Would you retain your wings in a polymorphed form, they are based on your form as an aasimar, but not based on class nor an Ex or Su ability.

Grudge Fighter - (orc)
This simple combat bonus is technically based on you being an orc.  Would that count as form dependant in the same way having the wings from the last example requires you to be an aasimar?

Evolved Familiar -
Say you've taken this feat to give your familiar a natural attack (which are Ex ability evolutions) like Bite.
If you polymorph your familiar, it should lose the bite, since it is an Ex ability based on form.
However the waters get murky-  the feat is not the familiars, it is Yours.
Meaning that the Familiar's form has nothing to do with the Ex ability.  Simply: if it is your familiar, you are constantly bestowing the ability upon it.  The polymorph on your familiar does not restrict Your feats, so
Would it simply still be in effect regardless, so long as your familiar wasn't dead/dismissed?
[Edit: basically, I am wondering if it stays applied through polymorph because it is applied by an outside source. Just like if the familiar was wearing an item or something that gave an attack, like ring of rat fangs]

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