The reason many people believe that chocolate labs dont make as good workers as yellow/black, is that at one time choc was quite a rare colour in labs, but the choc colour was highly desired, usually for non working pets, two choc labs were bred together wether they were good workers or not.
Many potential gundog owners would not consider buying a yellow/black lab without FTCH in their pedigree, whereas would purchase a choc lab just for the colour.
I have never owned a choc lab but have seen some excellent workers out in the field, but also some very head strong ones.
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