Can anyone tell me the most popular and least popular color. Pros and cons to each color, and as pet and possibly as a hunting dog? Thanks

Black most popular. Yellow is second. Chocolate dogs need love too. Light colored yellows stand out when you are hunting. Chocolates blend best. Blacks are next.
Chocolates have a rap of being inconsistent where training to high levels is expected but there are some very good chocolate bloodlines.
All of that being said I have owned all three and run tests with all three and titled them in HRC. The chocolate was the toughest to train but the best hunting dog I ever had. I now have a chocolate female off of a GRHCH and HRCH that has all of the best bloodlines you could hope for from the chocolate kingdom of years past. I don't trial anymore but this dog is a good one!
Geezer should add to this thread...He has seen way more of them than me.

Silvers are the most beautiful out there. I have a chocolate and think they're just flat out prettier than blacks and yellows.

From what I've heard from trainers blacks make the best hunting/field trial dogs, yellow some where in the middle, and chocolates are dumb as chit and stubborn.

bullchitt.

Silver labs have been cross bred to get the color. There papers are actually labeled chocolate.

Silver labs may not even be labs>>>>cross bred with a Weimerainer is what the were crossbred with. They have a very very dubious lineage

With labs, I wouldn't worry about color. If you want calm then find a calm sire and dam. If you want a duck dog then find that. Define the characteristics you want and buy puppies from dogs that exhibit those characteristics.

con...all of em will chew up everything in sight till they are a year old.

Worst dog ever bit me was a 10 week old lab. I was laying on the floor belly up and she pounced on my chest and decided my nose needed shredding! LOL Those little needle sharp teeth had blood draining everywhere!

I've got a 15month old chocolate male who is freaking awesome. Never chewed a thing in the house and obedience is incredible. My boy had an tremendous first duck season this year. Truly man's best friend.

My parents have his litter mate that is a yellow male. He is a great dog, but he's not the same as my dog. He's a barker and will almost 100% break. He's still a great companion and friend.

make that 2 years old

X2 on 2 years. Mine destroyed several hundred dollars in stuff,including eating the seat on my son's go cart. Anything you don't want destroyed better be locked up.

This is the same experience I've had with my chocolate lab so far. She's full of energy but not at all destructive and she's very smart and obedient. I do something with her every day though to help get some of that energy out of her. I think that makes a big difference. High energy dogs have to have a way to release some of it or they become restless. I think I'm wired the same way as a human.

Unfortunately, if I was a dog,I would be a Basset Hound.

I can't hold my breath any longer as all I hear is labs chew everything . Look a lab will chew as well as a lot of other dogs if given the opportunity especiallywhen cutting k9s . Keep them crated up and don't let them have that option. And you'll never have to worry about a chewer.

black lab is the better of the three then it goes yellow then chocolate. Just my opinion

I’m sorry but I gotta call bullchit on this one. I just don’t see how the color of the dog would have anything to do with it’s temperament, drive, trainability, etc…..The litter that my chocolate came from were roughly half black and half chocolate. Y’all are really gonna say that the black ones in the litter have more potential than the chocolate ones even though they had the same mom and dad?? Someone is gonna have to splain this one to me.

Black dogs are the true breeding of a lab. Let's put it this way I have 5 master dogs that are black and one choc. And you can't argue with history buddy there are only anout two hand full of choc dogs who have a made field champions along with about 140 black dogs so argue and call BS there but your in a loosng argument with no way out. Black dogs have way more trainability and drive. I've trained over 100 labs how many have you ? I've gotten so many choc dogs that may have drive but dumb as a brick. But more that have zero drive.

And to answer your question On a the half choc half black litter. Your missing the point or blind to it one. We are talking about pure black bred dogs who's 5 generation and beyonds pedigree is black , that's when you get into a true black dog. Do not get me wrong a there are a few good bred nice choc dogs that have it all. But to argue history you can't. End of story. I don't intend to hurt any choc lovers feelings in this thread but to sit here and watch people post about things they don't know drives me crazy sometimes.