It would help (and maybe I read past it, didn't note, lacking coffee at the time) if we knew what pellets you had tried.
I don't feed pellets now, but have fed several of the Nutrena pellet offerings successfully. Locally, I can't get the Purina pellets (and now fget feed from the local mill...
Correlation is not causation. The lengthening of daylight is a more likely cause of the increased rate of lay - which they are achieving by raiding their own bodies for nutrients. On/about the winter Solstice, Cincinnati was seeing about 9.5 hours of daylight per cycle. You are (as of today)...