Method and device for evisceration of slaughtered poultry

A method for eviscerating slaughtered poultry having a carcass with a viscera pack in a body cavity of the carcass, wherein the body cavity has been opened at the vent end. The method comprises: - retaining the carcass in an orientation with the neck end downwards, - entering the body cavity of the retained carcass with an eviscerating tool via the opened vent end, said eviscerating tool having a front end, - dipping the eviscerating tool deeper into the body cavity with its front end passing along the breast side of the body cavity so that the front end thereof moves past the viscera pack at least till beyond the liver, - withdrawing the eviscerating tool and thereby lifting the viscera pack out of the body cavity. Use is made of a gizzard pre-lifting tool, distinct from the eviscerating tool, which is entered into the body cavity of the retained carcass via the opened vent end, which gizzard pre-lifting tool is operated to grasp the gizzard and/or belly fat bonded to the gizzard and which gizzard pre-lifting too is operated to lift the gizzard thereby entraining a further portion of the viscera pack, said lifting of the gizzard being performed prior to the front end of the eviscerating tool passing along the breast side of the body cavity past the liver as the eviscerating tool is dipped into the body cavity.