Historic Presence of Jungle Fowl in the American Deep South

[Florida Bullfrog]

Do you know much about the coloration of these roosters?
Normally I'd think it wasn't possible to get browns like this in roosters but I recently came across these.

I suppose I'm used to the normal sexual dimorphism.

Those are called “hennies.” Its basically what you get when a rooster develops hen plumage in maturity instead of rooster plumage. I have never owned one, but they are popular among gamefowl enthusiasts. I am not aware whether there is a survival advantage or disadvantage in it or not.

Many hennie gamefowl lines were known to be good fighters, so it would stand to reason that they have the grit where it counts.

They are beautiful in their own way.

 

[E flowers]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ee-range-survival-junglefowl-x-liege.1424023/

It started as an idea to cross my Crackers with Liege fighters. It morphed into crossing the Liege with orientals. The first batch was Liege crossed to black sonatol aseel. The subsequent generations were prone to Marek’s disease. The only way I salvaged the line was by crossing Cracker into them. It made a tough, black, American-gamefowl looking chicken that has been thriving on my farm, but isn’t the head turning dino chicken I want.

The next group was Liege to Thai/aseel (the Thai x aseel hybrid I got from a member here). Those have been great and have been the dino chickens I’ve been looking for and I’m working to set the line.

The Liege x aseel x Cracker line I discuss more here in this thread, which contains many peoples’ free range project lines.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/landrace-adaptive-breeding-discussion.1624350/

Do you think if I crossed my mixed Easter egger hen (or new hand selected EE's) to a liege then the resulting chicks would be more prone to Marek’s?

Or since she's already a 3 way cross would that prevent the genetic weakness towards the illness?

Then if I bred resulting chicks either back to their Liege father (if they're chicks from my EE cross) then to asil roo, or straight to a new asil rooster would I then get more of the eyeshine and temperament?