Egg shell does provide calcium but if you want to use them, I recommend baking them in the oven until they dry out and turn a little brown, then crush and sprinkle around your tree.  However, bird like them too and they know what they are!

Suzi, only 2 days?  Really?  I love meat and paleo is all about veggies and grilled meat.  Nothing processed, no white sugar, no rice, no beans, no wheat, no oatmeal, no wheat, no bread!  Rob's book explains why those foods are bad for us.  The Pulled Pork at Costco has been one of my staples.  And there is a very funny girl who started a blog dedicate to those who love to eat Paleo.  It's called PaleoOMG.com.  Please read her comment on her blog, she is so funny!  She has a lot of excellent recipes that I find are the best!  One of her recipes is called Tex-Mex Casserole is to die for!  I make it twice a week and eat it every day for breakfast.   In her recipe, she shreds her sweet potato.  I don't do that.  I dice mine and I use only Red Jarrett sweet potatoes.  THey are the sweetest potato in the world!!!!   Suzi, the hardest part to any lifestyle change is to change our old ways of eating.  It was tough for me at first but I don't crave anything.  I just feel bloated when I eat bread or sugar.  Today I have washboard abs and no belly fat.  Who would have thought eating the right foods would do that?  Now it's time to schedule a couple of those 5 and 10k races!

 I can say that since I started this new lifestyle, I do think clearer and sleep better.

So it's Shrove Tuesday and no one has mentioned pancakes.

Jennifer, I have a Blue Front Amazon. I cannot identify your bird, although it looks like an Amazon. that Chihuahua looks pretty tough in the that turtleneck, but your terrier reminded me of my Dachshund who got her head stuck in a peanut butter jar the other day going after that one last molecule. She hunts strawberries in the summer. Fortunately, the figs will be elevated in their pots, or she might be "going to ground" for those, too.

Seems like fig growers like parrots too!  I had no idea how many of us are out there lol!

Well Jennifer?  What kind of parrot do you have?  Is it a Senegal? 

It's hard to tell with such a close up and the photo is a bit dark

Oh thank you, they are cute! My little Sassy is a Red Bellied parrot. She says all sorts of nasty things: "shut up", "hush", "go away", "bad bad bad", "Charlie (the black dog)". What a personality! It wasn't from me......

Jennifer

No bird tricks for me, but I have taught my cat to give me one paw then the other. I hadn't considered grinding or cooking my eggshells, thanks for those suggestions. If you ask, most Starbucks will give you their used grounds. I add them to the compost usually but have added directly to tomatoes and roses, and just dug them in with a cultivator.

Jen,
If you use eggs while dieting and want to include the yolk, buy brands like Eggland's Best. Companies that feed their hens flax or seaweed produce eggs that are significantly lower in fat and cholesterol. For every 2 eggs of most commercial brands you can eat 3 of brands like Eggland's Best. The giant egg producers sue any company that advertises these facts. They bully these smaller companies with these nuisance suits so we stay ignorant of what we're eating.
If you raise your own chickens and can allow them to roam around and eat bugs and weed seeds, etc. you'll also get healthier eggs. If you eat raw eggs try and raise chickens like Marans that have smaller pores in their shells and let in fewer pathogens. 
And please do not feed your dogs raw eggs as it interferes with biotin and can cause hair loss, etc. It can also give them food poisoning. 
I use egg shells to help deter slugs by partially crushing them and spreading them on the surface of the soil. This is only partially effective and does not take the place of other deterrents if you see snails or slugs on your figs. Egg shells break down pretty slowly. I dry mine first to keep from attracting ants that may want to harvest the fresh shell membrane. 

I know an animal nutrition PhD who reminds me that we are what they eat.

My grandmother used to throw all of her coffee grounds, and egg shells around her rose bushes,
and they were beautiful. Earthworms love both coffee grounds, and egg shells.
But, instead of egg shells, since I don't eat many eggs, I use TUMS,
they're pure calcium Carbonate. I crush the 1,000 Mg tablets,
they work great, easy to work with, and smell good too.

Also, Diatomatious earth is great as a snail, and slug deterrent.
Which also has trace minerals, and calcium carbonate in it.

Snails and slugs will not cross copper either.
When I could find it back in the 1970's and 1980's,
I used copper foil stripping used for soldering stain glass window pieces together.
Worked great around the edges of wooden benches, table tops, large pot edges, etc.
I saw in an article not long ago that English gardeners are stilling use it on their greenhouse benches.

Baked shells smells acrid. but I got it done. I have a bag full of it now, it should last me a good month.