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In the spring of the breeding season 2020, I hatched a very pale Fallow chick that after a few weeks resulted to be red-breasted ivory. This is the combination of 4 recessive colour-mutations on the same phenotype: red-breasted, silver, brown (cinnamon) and Fallow.
This combination produces a very pale silver bird practically without markings on the back and with an extremely light orange breast.
I imagine that such a colour-combination on a female should produce an even lighter coloured bird.
I let you enjoy the pictures!

The birds above pictured are two nicely marked females of the Chinese painted quail.
They are also carriers for the “Fallow”-gene aka “pink-eyed dilute” firstly discovered in 1999 and reinforced/established by Garrie J.LANDRY, in Louisiana, U.S.A.
These two females will be used in 2021 with pure Fallow birds to build up a new breeding line.
I toke the pictures on June 1st, 2020.

Some juvenile of genetically pure Chinese painted quail.
Those birds come from pure wild breeding pairs that carry no mutation inside their genotype.
Pictures were taken on May 24th, 2020.