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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 Licks
    Oct 29, 2016 at 1:25
  • Thanks, I also could not think of anything. The closest term was animals that died of a disease. Oct 29, 2016 at 1:28
  • 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 Licks
    Oct 29, 2016 at 1:32
  • 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. Oct 29, 2016 at 1:39
  • '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 Feltz
    Oct 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.

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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
  • It may be jargon, but it's definitely the official term
    – Andrew Leach
    Oct 29, 2016 at 9:28
  • 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

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