As a family you must make sure that your grand parents house and your parents house is taken care of , because sometimes you will need it to use when you're doing certain ritual for your ancestors
According to a research many people have different opinion, when it comes to how to do traditional rituals, any ritual depends on how your family do rituals, the way of doing any ritual for ancestors is passed from generation to generation
According to our culture everyone should know how to do a family ritual, each an every ritual have instructions, in order for any ritual to be successful instructions need to be followed
Because ancestors are very strict, when instructions are not followed ancestors will reject the ritual
When things are getting very bad for you even though you have done the ritual that is needed by ancestors, you will consult a traditional healer that will tell you, the ritual for the ancestors was unsuccessful
Sometimes your ancestors will show you in your dreams that ritual was unsuccessful, there are many different things that can make the ancestors to reject the ritual
Even if you have slaughtered a cow instead of goat because rituals are not the same , some rituals are done by a cow and some are done by a goatwhen you doing a ritual, you must make sure you know the ritual very well, don't ask your ritual to other people
people need to understand that chickens don't do rituals, chicken is used to report to the ancestors, if you consulted a traditional healer that has told you, your ancestors need to be cleanse
that is a big ritual, if you don't have money to do the ritual, You can use a chicken to report to the ancestors, that you know about the ritual they need, you don't have money to do it now and mention when are you going to do that ritual
Sources Mr mavuka(Traditional healer)