 The woman of the house would "feed them fodder", i.e., prepare a meal for them, consisting of "đevenica" (a sort of dried sausage), roast pork, and the hollow loaf, plus rakia for the adults.Having eaten, they would go back to the threshing floor and repeat the whole ritual, only this time without the loaf.In the end, they would collect Christmas straw from the threshing floor; it was put in hens' nests to prevent them from laying eggs outside the nests.