Apparatus for cutting poultry carcasses into pieces which can be from two pieces up to twelve pieces, having a power driven feeding mechanism which moves a carcass along support while it is being cut into pieces automatically by various blades. The support includes a guide bar having a projecting end suitable for being inserted through the central cavity of a poultry carcass. The feeding mechanism includes twin pneumatic cylinders arranged to cause reciprocating motion of a claw along the support, the claw being arranged to engage the carcass when this is positioned on the bar, and to cause movement of the carcass through the various cutting blades which are mounted adjacent to the support. The bar projects forwards from a supporting slideway having downwardly sloping side surfaces, and the cutting blades include a fixed blade projecting downwardly from the bar in front of the slideway for slitting the wish-bone of the carcass, and a band saw which subsequently removes the drumsticks and the breast point of the carcass and allows the breast of the carcass to be separated, the separate portions then being supported by the side surfaces of the slideway. Subsequently, two blades remove the wings of the carcass, a blade slits the back bone, and transverse blades move into a slot in the slideway to cut the carcass in half longitudinally. The cut parts fall from the apparatus onto a slatted conveyor belt which delivers the cut parts to bags or other containers.