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Actually, a SLW sex-link would have a black tail. Yours are probably a RIR or NH x Rhode Island White.
There's no way to know for sure, because hatcheries keep their sex-link recipes secret...
My neighbor had 18 Cinnamon Queen hens, and three went broody. One of them refused to quit being broody and actually starved herself to death.
The other two gave a good attempt, and then quit within a couple months. The other 15 hens never went broody. With commercial sex-links, the hatcheries try to breed out broodiness because they're after eggs. And of course when a hen goes broody she quits laying...
I have noticed a couple of mine wanting to sleep in the nest boxes too, without showing any broody characteristics. I think they just like to go in there all by themselves to get all cozy and for some alone time, LOL. I always pull them out and put them on the roosts because I don't want a pile of poop in the nests. I do think it's too late in the year for broodies...
BUT This is the first one I have ever seen that actually has a ROSE comb, at least it appears to from what I can see from the pic.
Where did you get her from grandmas Nest ? Was she bought from a hatchery or feedstore ? Or is she a farm bred sexlink ? So being that she has a rose comb, I guess she could be from a SLW hen as long as the roo was some strain or mix that was White Tailed Red Columbian like this hen. This is interesting and I really like the looks of a rose comb on a sexlink bird like this. I think I'm gonna work on a complicated strain of Rosecombed Sexlinks, I've already been thinking about it but that pic make up my mind.
Please let us know where you got her from if you know her original origin.
As for the broodiness. Like Cowgirl said, Commercial strains have had the broodiness bred out but there are always exceptions and especially if she was farm bred then then that would give her a higher likelihood of being broody. But if shes out during the day, its hard to say. Some birds are stubborn prefer to roost in the nests. Are the roosts higher that the nest box ? They generally like to roost in the highest place possible so the roosts should be higher than the nest box.
