Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing contamination from the body cavity of poultry includes means providing a source of pressurized water to a rotary vertical pipe having central nozzle means mounted on its upper end and to fixed side nozzles positioned adjacent opposite sides of the central nozzle with a fowl supporting and positioning rack means being positioned over the nozzles; the abdominal cavity of a fowl is positioned over the supporting and positioning rack means which is oscillated while water is ejected from the nozzles with sufficient force to remove the kidneys and contamination from the body cavity. In a second embodiment the side nozzles oscillate about the axis of the rotary vertical pipe and the supporting and positioning rack is stationary.