please some one should help me differentiate between cattle ranches and cattle colonies.

A cattle ranch is an area of land, including various structures and amenities, given primarily for the practice of raising grazing cattle for meat and/or milk. A cattle colony is a magnification of a cattle ranch, whereby many distinct ranches are co-located on a very large land area. Thus, if they do a cattle colony in, for instance, Lagos (the smallest state in Nigeria) a quarter of the land space or more may be gone, dependent on the size of the colony. Therefore, it is clear that cattle colonies are only feasible in the North of Nigeria where they have enough land to do so. In the south, there is little space and most places are densely populated by human and physical structures. Thus, southerners will go for cattle ranches located separately from each other and paid for by the investors themselves.