Albert & Dena married in 1993 and along with his brother operated Finlay Farm Herefords.  For the next 18 years Herefords were their main interest.

Dena was born to a part time farming family in Saanich.  They raised chickens, pigs, a few Black Angus cattle and had a family milk cow.  As a young 4-H member Dena raised goats and in 1964 her interest turned to sheep.  For a number of years she had a small flock of Southdown sheep and later commercial ewes.  When she and Albert married she suggested a few sheep for grazing areas that could not be harvested or allow cattle to feed on.  Over the next few years the flock grew from commercial ewes that produced lamb for customers, to a desire to find a purebred breed to show and sell for breeding stock.  The name “Lochridge” for the Texel flock came from the farm that Dena grew up on in Saanich that borders Blenkinsop (Lost) Lake, in the Blenkinsop Valley.  Albert and Dena wished to keep that part of her farming heritage as well as Finlay Farm from his family’s farm.