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Sounds like she's heading in a good direction. And, as you mentioned in your first post, infection is the main concern now. In my opinion, you're doing everything you're supposed to. If you haven't before needed to look out for infections in chickens you may want to do some searching on this...

Since you're probably going to be treating the wound for 7-14 days, you'll want to trim back as much as will allow you easy access to the wound. (Imagine that there will be times when you're cleaning the wound by yourself and you'll need to hold the bird with one hand and apply treatment with...

Your instincts are spot on. I'd trim the feathers away from around the wound so that you can have a better view of the wound and have easier access as you apply whatever ointment you're using (my choice is to cleanse with a saline solution and then dress with Neosporin). As for the wound's size...