In Russian animals that died of a disease can be translated as fallen animals e.g. fallen sheep.
Is there a similar term in English?
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Nothing is coming to mind.– Hot LicksOct 29, 2016 at 1:25
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Thanks, I also could not think of anything. The closest term was animals that died of a disease.– Marina DunstOct 29, 2016 at 1:28
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There are terms like mortality and morbidity, but they describe the state, vs being an adjective on the animal. I gather you want something that could be used like "dead-from-disease sheep", but again nothing comes to mind.– Hot LicksOct 29, 2016 at 1:32
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Yep, dead-from-disease-sheep. Someone suggested carrion which is a carcass of an animal that died of either a disease or natural causes but I think it's usually in reference to wild or stray animals rather than domesticated kinds.– Marina DunstOct 29, 2016 at 1:39
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'Diseased sheep' refers to sheep that are still alive; I don't think there's a simple term for 'sheep that died because they were diseased'.– John FeltzOct 29, 2016 at 1:47
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The term for farm animals that have died of a disease is, in fact, fallen stock:-
Animals that have died on the farm. These need to be removed as on-farm burial is prohibited
So you would have fallen sheep, fallen cows, fallen chickens (for all I know). A guide as to what to do with them can be found here.
answered Oct 29, 2016 at 8:39
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This seems somewhat orthogonal to what's being asked here. At least according to that definition, an animal who died in a fight on the farm would be considered fallen, whereas a wild animal that dies of a disease in the woods would not. It also sounds rather jargony and technical—I would assume, not knowing of this specific meaning, that a fallen animal was one that had died in battle (mostly, I suppose, applicable to horses in the old days and more generally in Narnia and such places). Oct 29, 2016 at 9:09
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I think it's used mainly in the UK and maybe it's time other English speaking countries adopted it too :) Oct 30, 2016 at 0:54