washing the ventral cavity the orientation of the bird to the washer may be slightly off due to differences in bird sizes a slight pendulum movement of the bird in the shackles and or a slight difference in the way the bird hangs from the shackles the washer of this invention assures easy entrance through a preformed cut and into the ventral cavity without causing little or no damage to the eviscerated bird this is done by a combination of the blunted distal end 2 and the low profiled distal region 3 as the proximal region of the washer enters the bird the camming surface 14 of the rib 11 nudges the bird towards a position where the long axis of the washer is substantially parallel with the long axis of the ventral cavity in the correct position the distal region of the washer will by disposed in the thoracic cavity away from the cavity walls the ribs 11 and 12 are aligned with the mid sagittal plane of the carcass rib 12 will be adjacent to the lower vertebrae and rib 11 will be adjacent to the inner anterior wall of the abdominal pelvic cavity once the washer is fully inserted in the ventral cavity the configuration and orientation of the rib correctly position the washer for optimum cleansing of the cavity walls of the ventral cavity in the preferred embodiment the distal region uses the rotating cylinder 7 having tangential orifices 8 for directing liquid against the thoracic cavity walls the cylinder 7 is not meant to be limiting in anyway orifices on the.