Abstract: This method makes use of a row of tools arranged along a conveyor provided with receptacles for holding poultry bodies. The design of the tools is aimed at obtaining a high quality end product with a high yield. The processing of the poultry bodies advanced by the receptacles and reliably held therein successively takes place by controllable scrapers, which sever the connection between the outer fillets, on the one hand, and the coracoid bones, the ribs and possibly the inner fillets, on the other, by means of controllable paring knives, which detach the outer fillets from the wing joints and the wishbone, by means of a retaining device detaching the outer fillets in one piece in double fillet form and by means of a tool with scrapers, with the aid of which the inner fillets can be scraped from the skeleton, after the skin surrounding the same has been destroyed by means of a tool.